Non-supercyclicity of Volterra Convolution and Related Operators

We show that if V ^α (α > 0) is the Riemann-Liouville fractional integration operator and T is an invertible operator on L ²(0, 1) which commutes with V , then TV ^α is not supercyclic on L ²(0, 1); in particular, many Volterra convolution operators are not supercyclic. The technique is based on an argument used by Gallardo-Gutiérrez and Montes-Rodríguez to show that V is not supercyclic.