Quasisimilarity of hyponormal and subdecomposable operators (Q1207146)

For separable complex Hilbert spaces \({\mathcal H}_ 0\) and \(\mathcal H\) let \({\mathcal L}({\mathcal H}_ 0)\) and \({\mathcal L}({\mathcal H})\) be the corresponding spaces of bounded linear operators. If \(T\in {\mathcal L}({\mathcal H}_ 0)\) is an operator without eigenvalues, \(S\in {\mathcal L}({\mathcal H})\) is a subdecomposable operator (i.e. the restriction to an invariant subspace of a decomposable operator), if further \(X\) and \(Y\) are bounded linear operators from \({\mathcal H}_ 0\) to \(\mathcal H\) and from \(\mathcal H\) to \({\mathcal H}_ 0\) respectively each with dense range such that \(XT= SX\) and \(YS= TY\), then \(\sigma(T)\backslash \sigma_ e(T)\subset \sigma(S)\backslash\sigma_ e(S)\). This leads to the affirmative answer of a question of S. Clary and J. Conway: The essential spectra of two quasisimilar (\(M\)-) hyponormal operators coincide. It is further shown that a point \(\lambda_ 0\) of \(\sigma(T)\backslash\sigma_ e(T)\) for a cyclic purely hyponormal operator \(T\in {\mathcal L}({\mathcal H})\) can be characterized to be an analytic point evaluation or equivalently there exists a coanalytic, \({\mathcal H}\)- valued function \(k\) in a neighborhood of \(\lambda_ 0\) such that \((T- \lambda)^* k(\lambda)= 0\). In a third section unital norm continuous representations \(\pi\) from \(H^ \infty(G)\) for a region \(G\), whose boundary has area measure zero, into \({\mathcal L}({\mathcal H})\) are considered. Two such representations are shown to be equal, if the images of the identity function are the same purely hyponormal operator. \(\pi^*\) is shown to be sequentially continuous with respect to the weak star topology of \(H^ \infty(G)\) and the strong operator topology on \({\mathcal L}({\mathcal H})\). Hence any contractive purely hyponormal operator is in \(C_{\cdot 0}\).