In this paper we study the minimality of the commutant of an analytic Toeplitz operator $M_\varphi$, when $M_\varphi$ is defined on the Hardy space $H^2(\mathbb{ D})$ and $\varphi\in H^\infty(\mathbb{ D})$, denotes a bounded analytic function on $\mathbb{ D}$. Specifically we show that the commutant of $M_\varphi$ is minimal if and only if the polynomials on $\varphi$ are weak-star dense in $H^\infty(\mathbb{ D})$, that is, $\varphi$ is a weak-star generator of $H^\infty(\mathbb{ D})$. We use our result to characterize when the double commutant of an analytic Toeplitz operator $M_\varphi$ is minimal, for a large class of symbols $\varphi$. Namelly, when $\varphi$ is an entire function, or more generally when $\varphi$ belongs to the Thomson-Cowen's class.
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