Power set and invariant subspaces of cyclic quasinilpotent operators (Q2062593): Difference between revisions

Let \(\mathcal{H}\) be a separable Hilbert space. The spectrum \(\sigma(T)\) for a bounded linear operator \(T\) on \(\mathcal{H}\) is defined by \[ \sigma(T) = \{ \lambda \in \mathbb{C}: (\lambda -T) \text{ is not invertible} \}, \] and the resolvent set \(\rho(T)\) for \(T\) is defined by \(\rho(T) = \mathbb{C} \setminus \sigma(T)\). An operator \(T\) is called quasinilpotent if \(\sigma(T) = \{0\}\). For a quasinilpotent operator \(T\) on \(\mathcal{H}\), Douglas and Yang defined the invariant \[ k_{x} = \limsup_{|z| \rightarrow 0}\frac{\log\|(z-T)^{-1}x\|}{\log\|(z-T)^{-1}\|} \quad (x \in \mathcal{H}, x \neq 0) \] and \[ \Lambda(T) = \{ k_x: x \in\mathcal{H}, x \neq 0 \} \] is called the power set of \(T\). In the paper under review, the authors calculated the power set of cyclic quasinilpotent operators and found the connection with their invariant subspaces. One of the main results is that the power set of the strictly cyclic quasinilpotent unilateral weighted shift only contains 1 (see Theorem 2.4). The authors characterized the invariant subspaces of the strongly strictly cyclic quasinilpotent operator and proved that its power set only contains 1 (see Theorem 3.6). It was also proved that the Volterra integral operator on \(L^2[0, 1]\) is cyclic but not strictly cyclic.