Essential Commutants and Characterizations of the Toeplitz Algebra

Abstract: In this paper we study the Toeplitz algebra, which is generated by Toeplitz operators with bounded symbols on the Fock space $F^p_{\alpha}$. We show that the Toeplitz algebra coincides with each of the algebras generated by band-dominated, sufficiently localized and weakly localized operators, respectively. Moreover, we determine its essential commutant and its essential bicommutant. For $p = 2$ these results were obtained recently by Xia. However, Xia's ideas are mostly connected to Hilbert space theory and methods which are not applicable for $p \neq 2$. Instead, we use a recent result of Fulsche to generalize Xia's theorems.