On the commutativity of a certain class of Toeplitz operators

Abstract: In this paper we prove that if the polar decomposition of a symbol $f$ is truncated above, i.e., $f(re^{i\theta} )=\sum_{k=-\infty}^Ne^{ik\theta} f_k (r)$ where the $f_k$'s are radial functions, and if the associated Toeplitz operator $T_f$ commutes with $T_{z^2+\bar{z}^2}$, then $T_f=Q(T_{z^2+\bar{z}^2})$ where $Q$ is a polynomial of degree at most $1$. This gives a partial answer to an open problem by S. Axler, Z. Cuckovic and N. V. Rao [2, p. 1953].