On the Fredholm Property of a Class of Convolution-Type Operators

The notions of the L-convolution operator and the a"'-Wiener-Hopf operator are introduced by replacing the Fourier transform in the definition of the convolution operator by a spectral transformation of the self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville operator on the axis a"'. In the case of the zero potential, the introduced operators coincide with the convolution operator and theWiener-Hopf integral operator, respectively. A connection between the a"'-Wiener-Hopf operator and singular integral operators is revealed. In the case of a piecewise continuous symbol, a criterion for the Fredholm property and a formula for the index of the a"'-Wiener-Hopf operator in terms of the symbol and the elements of the scattering matrix of the operator a"' are obtained.