Converse direction of the Berger–Coburn endpoint characterization

Determine whether boundedness of the endpoint heat transform $g^{(1/4)}$ for an admissible symbol on the Fock space implies boundedness of the associated Toeplitz operator $T_g$.

Background

Berger and Coburn conjectured that, for an admissible symbol gg, the Toeplitz operator TgT_g is bounded if and only if its endpoint heat transform g(1/4)g^{(1/4)} is bounded. The paper establishes that the forward implication fails by invoking Looi’s counterexample: a bounded Toeplitz operator can have an unbounded endpoint heat transform.

The unresolved issue is the converse implication: whether boundedness of g(1/4)g^{(1/4)} is sufficient to ensure boundedness of TgT_g. The paper explicitly states that it does not address this direction, so the full endpoint characterization remains unresolved in that direction.

References

The converse implication in the Berger--Coburn conjecture is not addressed here.

The critical Schatten exponent for the Berger-Coburn endpoint problem  (2609.11853 - Virtanen, 10 Sep 2026) in Remark following Theorem 1, Section 1 (Introduction and the main result)