On the existence of extremizers for the sum of eigenvalues of Toeplitz operators

We prove that, among all measurable sets $\Omega\subset\mathbb{C}$ of prescribed Lebesgue measure, there exists a set maximizing the sum of the first $K$ eigenvalues ($K\geq 1$) of the associated Toeplitz operator on the Fock space.

In the Fock setting, the case $K=1$ is well known, the optimal sets being balls of prescribed measure, whereas for $K>1$ the existence of optimal sets appears to be new (maximizers are not known explicitly, and the optimality of balls remains conjectural).

Moreover, under mild assumptions, our proof extends to localization operators associated with abstract wavelet transforms.

In this broader setting, the result is new even for $K=1$.

As an application, we prove the existence of optimal sets for the Donoho--Stark concentration problem and its generalization to orthonormal systems.