On centered and weakly centered operators (Q1891799)

The authors show that if \(C\) is a contraction of spectral radius 1 then \(T\) is polynomially bounded if and only if the same is true of \(T\otimes C\). As a corollary, they obtain that every invertible, centered, polynomially bounded operator is similar to a contraction. They also prove a structure theorem for weakly centered operators.