Wiener-Hopf indices of unimodular functions on the unit circle, revisited

Inspired by the paper of Groenewald, Kaashoek and Ran (Wiener-Hopf indices of unitary functions on the unit circle in terms of realizations and related results on Toeplitz operators. \emph{Indag. Math.} 28, (2017), 649-710), we present an operator-theoretic approach to provide further insight and simpler computational formulas for the Wiener-Hopf indices of a rational matrix valued function taking unimodular values on the unit circle.