Composition operators with maximal norm on weighted Bergman spaces

We prove that any composition operator with maximal norm on one of the weighted Bergman spaces (in particular, on the space ) is induced by a disk automorphism or a map that fixes the origin. This result demonstrates a major difference between the weighted Bergman spaces and the Hardy space , where every inner function induces a composition operator with maximal norm.

     

On the commutant of hyponormal operators

Let be a pure hyponormal operator with compact self-commutator. We show that the unit ball of the commutant of is compact in the strong operator topology.

     

On the spectrum of the Cesàro operator on spaces of analytic functions

This paper concerns the Cesàro operator acting on various spaces of analytic functions on the unit disc. The remarkable fact that this operator is subnormal when acting on the Hardy space H² has lead to extensive studies of its spectral picture on other spaces of this type. We present some of the methods that have been used to obtain information about the spectrum of the Cesàro operator acting on Hardy and Bergman spaces and give a unified approach to these problems which also yields new results in this direction. In particular, we prove that the Cesàro operator is subdecomposable on H¹ and on the standard weighted Bergman spaces , α0.     

On the derivatives of the Berezin transform

Improving upon a recent result of L. Coburn and J. Xia, we show that for any bounded linear operator on the Segal-Bargmann space, the Berezin transform of is a function whose partial derivatives of all orders are bounded. Similarly, if is a bounded operator on any one of the usual weighted Bergman spaces on a bounded symmetric domain, then the appropriately defined ``invariant derivatives' of any order of the Berezin transform of are bounded. Further generalizations are also discussed.

     

Spectral theory and hypercyclic subspaces

A vector in a Hilbert space is called hypercyclic for a bounded operator if the orbit is dense in . Our main result states that if satisfies the Hypercyclicity Criterion and the essential spectrum intersects the closed unit disk, then there is an infinite-dimensional closed subspace consisting, except for zero, entirely of hypercyclic vectors for . The converse is true even if is a hypercyclic operator which does not satisfy the Hypercyclicity Criterion. As a consequence, other characterizations are obtained for an operator to have an infinite-dimensional closed subspace of hypercyclic vectors. These results apply to most of the hypercyclic operators that have appeared in the literature. In particular, they apply to bilateral and backward weighted shifts, perturbations of the identity by backward weighted shifts, multiplication operators and composition operators. The main result also applies to the differentiation operator and the translation operator defined on certain Hilbert spaces consisting of entire functions. We also obtain a spectral characterization of the norm-closure of the class of hypercyclic operators which have an infinite-dimensional closed subspace of hypercyclic vectors.

     

Essentially Normal Operator + Compact Operator = Strongly Irreducible Operator

It is shown that given an essentially normal operator with connected spectrum, there exists a compact operator such that is strongly irreducible.

     

Leibenzon's backward shift and composition operators

We apply Leibenzon's backward shift to show that the composition operator on the unit ball of always maps the weighted Hardy space into the Hardy class .

     

The backward shift on Dirichlet-type spaces

We study the backward shift operator on Hilbert spaces (for ) which are norm equivalent to the Dirichlet-type spaces . Although these operators are unitarily equivalent to the adjoints of the forward shift operator on certain weighted Bergman spaces, our approach is direct and completely independent of the standard Cauchy duality. We employ only the classical Hardy space theory and an elementary formula expressing the inner product on in terms of a weighted superposition of backward shifts.

     

Diffusion processes on complete riemannian manifolds

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