An Operator-valued Berezin Transform and the Class of <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-Hypercontractions

We study an operator-valued Berezin transform corresponding to certain standard weighted Bergman spaces of square integrable analytic functions in the unit disc. The study of this operator-valued Berezin transform relates in a natural way to the study of the class of n-hypercontractions on Hilbert space introduced by Agler. To an n-hypercontraction we associate a positive -valued operator measure dω _{n, T} supported on the closed unit disc in a way that generalizes the above notion of operator-valued Berezin transform. This construction of positive operator measures dω _{n, T} gives a natural functional calculus for the class of n-hypercontractions. We revisit also the operator model theory for the class of n-hypercontractions. The new results here concern certain canonical features of the theory. The operator model theory for the class of n-hypercontractions gives information about the structure of the positive operator measures dω _{n, T} .     

On CNC commuting contractive tuples

The characteristic function has been an important tool for studying completely non-unitary contractions on Hilbert spaces. In this note, we consider completely non-coisometric contractive tuples of commuting operators on a Hilbert space H. We show that the characteristic function, which is now an operator-valued analytic function on the open Euclidean unit ball in ℂⁿ, is a complete unitary invariant for such a tuple. We prove that the characteristic function satisfies a natural transformation law under biholomorphic mappings of the unit ball. We also characterize all operator-valued analytic functions which arise as characteristic functions of pure commuting contractive tuples.     

Points of Weak-Norm Continuity in the Unit Ball of Banach Spaces

Using the M-structure theory, we show that several classical function spaces and spaces of operators on them fail to have points of weak-norm continuity for the identity map on the unit ball. This gives a unified approach to several results in the literature that establish the failure of strong geometric structure in the unit ball of classical function spaces. Spaces covered by our result include the Bloch spaces, dual of the Bergman space L¹_a and spaces of operators on them, as well as the space C(T)/A, where A is the disc algebra on the unit circle T. For any unit vector f in an infinite-dimensional function algebra A we explicitly construct a sequence {f_n} in the unit ball of A that converges weakly to f but not in the norm.     

A joint similarity problem for n-tuples of operators on vector-valued Bergman spaces

We investigate n-tuples of commuting Foias-Williams/Peller type operators acting on vector-valued weighted Bergman spaces. We prove that a commuting n-tuple of such operators is jointly (completely) polynomially bounded if and only if it is similar to an n-tuple of contractions, if and only if each of the n operators is polynomially bounded.     

An Invariant Subspace Theorem and Invariant Subspaces of Analytic Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces - II

This paper is a follow-up contribution to our work (Sarkar in J Oper Theory, 73:433–441, 2015) where we discussed some invariant subspace results for contractions on Hilbert spaces. Here we extend the results of (Sarkar in J Oper Theory, 73:433–441, 2015) to the context of n-tuples of bounded linear operators on Hilbert spaces. Let \(T = (T_1, \ldots , T_n)\) be a pure commuting co-spherically contractive n-tuple of operators on a Hilbert space \({\mathcal {H}}\) and \({\mathcal {S}}\) be a non-trivial closed subspace of \({\mathcal {H}}\). One of our main results states that: \({\mathcal {S}}\) is a joint T-invariant subspace if and only if there exists a partially isometric operator \(\Pi \in {\mathcal {B}}(H^2_n({\mathcal {E}}), {\mathcal {H}})\) such that \({\mathcal {S}}= \Pi H^2_n({\mathcal {E}})\), where \(H^2_n\) is the Drury–Arveson space and \({\mathcal {E}}\) is a coefficient Hilbert space and \(T_i \Pi = \Pi M_{z_i}\), \(i = 1, \ldots , n\). In particular, it follows that a shift invariant subspace of a “nice” reproducing kernel Hilbert space over the unit ball in \({{\mathbb {C}}}^n\) is the range of a “multiplier” with closed range. Our work addresses the case of joint shift invariant subspaces of the Hardy space and the weighted Bergman spaces over the unit ball in \({{\mathbb {C}}}^n\).     

On k-hyperexpansive operators

This paper considers the k-hyperexpansive Hilbert space operators T (those satisfying , 1?n?k) and the k-expansive operators (those satisfying the above inequality merely for n=k). It is known that if T is k-hyperexpansive then so is any power of T; we prove the analogous result for T assumed merely k-expansive. Turning to weighted shift operators, we give a characterization of k-expansive weighted shifts, and produce examples showing the k-expansive classes are distinct. For a weighted shift W that is k-expansive for all k (that is, completely hyperexpansive) we obtain results for k-hyperexpansivity of back step extensions of W. In addition, we discuss the completely hyperexpansive completion problem which is parallel to Stampfli's subnormal completion problem.     

Rudin orthogonality problem on the Bergman space

In this paper, we study the Rudin orthogonality problem on the Bergman space, which is to characterize those functions bounded analytic on the unit disk whose powers form an orthogonal set in the Bergman space of the unit disk. We completely solve the problem if those functions are univalent in the unit disk or analytic in a neighborhood of the closed unit disk. As a consequence, it is shown that an analytic multiplication operator on the Bergman space is unitarily equivalent to a weighted unilateral shift of finite multiplicity n if and only if its symbol is a constant multiple of the n-th power of a Möbius transform, which was obtained via the Hardy space theory of the bidisk in Sun et al. (2008) [10].     

Integral representation of the W-weighted Drazin inverse for Hilbert space operators

This paper studies the integral representation of the W-weighted Drazin inverse for bounded linear operators between Hilbert spaces. By using operator matrix blocks, some integral representations of the W-weighted Drazin inverse for Hilbert space operators are established.     

Boundary behavior in Hilbert spaces of vector-valued analytic functions

In this paper we study the boundary behavior of functions in Hilbert spaces of vector-valued analytic functions on the unit disc D. More specifically, we give operator-theoretic conditions on Mz, where Mz denotes the operator of multiplication by the identity function on D, that imply that all functions in the space have non-tangential limits a.e., at least on some subset of the boundary. The main part of the article concerns the extension of a theorem by Aleman, Richter and Sundberg in [A. Aleman, S. Richter, C. Sundberg, Analytic contractions and non-tangential limits, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007)] to the case of vector-valued functions.     

Norm Estimates for Weighted Composition Operators on Spaces of Holomorphic Functions

This paper shows that the boundedness of a weighted composition operator on the Hardy–Hilbert space on the disc or half-plane implies its boundedness on a class of related spaces, including weighted Bergman spaces. The methods used involve the study of lower-triangular and causal operators.     

Hankel Operators on Fock Spaces and Related Bergman Kernel Estimates

Hankel operators with anti-holomorphic symbols are studied for a large class of weighted Fock spaces on ? ⁿ . The weights defining these Hilbert spaces are radial and subject to a mild smoothness condition. In addition, it is assumed that the weights decay at least as fast as the classical Gaussian weight. The main result of the paper says that a Hankel operator on such a Fock space is bounded if and only if the symbol belongs to a certain BMOA space, defined via the Berezin transform. The latter space coincides with a corresponding Bloch space which is defined by means of the Bergman metric. This characterization of boundedness relies on certain precise estimates for the Bergman kernel and the Bergman metric. Characterizations of compact Hankel operators and Schatten class Hankel operators are also given. In the latter case, results on Carleson measures and Toeplitz operators along with Hörmander’s L ² estimates for the $\bar{\partial}$ operator are key ingredients in the proof.     

Essential norm of products of multiplication composition and differentiation operators on weighted Bergman spaces

Let ψ be a holomorphic function on the open unit disk D and φ a holomorphic self-map of D. Let C_φ,M_ψ and D denote the composition, multiplication and differentiation operator, respectively. We find an asymptotic expression for the essential norm of products of these operators on weighted Bergman spaces on the unit disk. This paper is a continuation of our recent paper concerning the boundedness of these operators on weighted Bergman spaces.     

Multiplication Operators on Invariant Subspaces of Function Spaces

Let M_φ be the operator of multiplication by φ on a Hilbert space of functions analytic on the open unit disk. For an invariant subspace F for the multiplication operator M_z, we derive some spectral properties of the multiplication operator M_φ : F → F. We characterize norm, spectrum, essential norm and essential spectrum of such operators when F has the codimension n property with n ∈ {1, 2, …, + ∞}.     

Weighted differentiation composition operators from H and Bloch spaces to nth weighted-type spaces on the unit disk

We characterize the boundedness and compactness of weighted differentiation composition operators from the space of bounded analytic functions, the Bloch space and the little Bloch space to nth weighted-type spaces on the unit disk.     

On Some Bergman Shift Operators

An operator identity satisfied by the shift operator in a class of standard weighted Bergman spaces is studied. We show that subject to a pureness condition this operator identity characterizes the associated Bergman shift operator up to unitary equivalence allowing for a general multiplicity. The analysis of the general case makes contact with the class of n-isometries studied by Agler and Stankus.     

A new class of operators and a description of adjoints of composition operators

Starting with a general formula, precise but difficult to use, for the adjoint of a composition operator on a functional Hilbert space, we compute an explicit formula on the classical Hardy Hilbert space for the adjoint of a composition operator with rational symbol. To provide a foundation for this formula, we study an extension to the definitions of composition, weighted composition, and Toeplitz operators to include symbols that are multiple-valued functions. These definitions can be made on any Banach space of analytic functions on a plane domain, but in this work, our attention is focused on the basic properties needed for the application to operators on the standard Hardy and Bergman Hilbert spaces on the unit disk.     

Characteristic functions and joint invariant subspaces

Let T:=[T₁,…,Tn] be an n-tuple of operators on a Hilbert space such that T is a completely non-coisometric row contraction. We establish the existence of a “one-to-one” correspondence between the joint invariant subspaces under T₁,…,Tn, and the regular factorizations of the characteristic function ΘT associated with T. In particular, we prove that there is a non-trivial joint invariant subspace under the operators T₁,…,Tn, if and only if there is a non-trivial regular factorization of ΘT. We also provide a functional model for the joint invariant subspaces in terms of the regular factorizations of the characteristic function, and prove the existence of joint invariant subspaces for certain classes of n-tuples of operators.We obtain criteria for joint similarity of n-tuples of operators to Cuntz row isometries. In particular, we prove that a completely non-coisometric row contraction T is jointly similar to a Cuntz row isometry if and only if the characteristic function of T is an invertible multi-analytic operator.     

On the index of invariant subspaces in Hilbert spaces of vector-valued analytic functions

Let H be a Hilbert space of analytic functions on the unit disc D with ‖Mz‖?1, where Mz denotes the operator of multiplication by the identity function on D. Under certain conditions on H it has been shown by Aleman, Richter and Sundberg that all invariant subspaces have index 1 if and only if for all f∈H, f?0 [A. Aleman, S. Richter, C. Sundberg, Analytic contractions and non-tangential limits, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (7) (2007) 3369-3407]. We show that the natural counterpart to this statement in Hilbert spaces of Cn-valued analytic functions is false and prove a correct generalization of the theorem. In doing so we obtain new information on the boundary behavior of functions in such spaces, thereby improving the main result of [M. Carlsson, Boundary behavior in Hilbert spaces of vector-valued analytic functions, J. Funct. Anal. 247 (1) (2007)].     

Hilbert space representations of decoherence functionals and quantum measures

We show that any decoherence functional D can be represented by a spanning vector-valued measure on a complex Hilbert space. Moreover, this representation is unique up to an isomorphism when the system is finite. We consider the natural map U from the history Hilbert space K to the standard Hilbert space H of the usual quantum formulation. We show that U is an isomorphism from K onto a closed subspace of H and that U is an isomorphism from K onto H if and only if the representation is spanning. We then apply this work to show that a quantum measure has a Hilbert space representation if and only if it is strongly positive. We also discuss classical decoherence functionals, operator-valued measures and quantum operator measures.     

The spectrum is continuous on the set of quasi-n-hyponormal operators

In this paper it is shown that the spectrum σ, a set-valued function, is continuous when the function is restricted to the set of all ‘quasi-n-hyponormal’ operators acting on an infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert space, where a quasi-n-hyponormal operator is defined to be unitarily equivalent to an n×n upper triangular operator matrix whose diagonal entries are hyponormal operators.