Hyponormal operators with finite rank self-commutators and quadrature domains (Q1815461)

A bounded linear operator \(S\) on a Hilbert space \({\mathcal H}\) is called subnormal if it has a normal extension. The self-commutator of \(S\) is \([S^*,S]= S^*S- SS^*\). A bounded linear operator \(H\) on a separable complex Hilbert space \({\mathcal H}\) is called hyponormal if it has a positive self-commutator. The operator \(S\) is called cyclic if there exists a vector \(x\in{\mathcal H}\) such that \(\{p(S)x:p\) is a polynomial\} is dense in \({\mathcal H}\), and is called rationally cyclic if there exists \(x\) so that \(\{r(S)x: r\) is a rational function with poles off \(\sigma(S)\}\) is dense in \({\mathcal H}\) where \(\sigma(S)\) denotes the spectrum of \(S\). An operator is called pure if it commutes with no nontrivial projection. It is known, by Olin, Thomson and Trent, the necessary and sufficient condition that a pure cyclic subnormal operator \(S\) has a finite rank self-commutator. And, by McCarthy and Yang, this result was generalized in the case where \(S\) is rationally cyclic by using the description of the quadrature domain in \(\mathbb{C}\). In this paper, the author studies the sufficient condition that \(S\) has a finite rank self-commutator in the case where \(S\) is not necessarily rationally cyclic or, more generally, the case where \(S\) is hyponormal.