Power boundedness and similarity to contractions for some perturbations of isometries (Q1827076)

Starting with the result of B. Sz.-Nagy about the similarity of some operators to a unitary one, a lot of specific results followed. In this paper, after a presentation of the main results of the first author's paper [``Generalized Toeplitz operators and similarity problems'' (Preprint IGD No. 30, Univ. Lyon 1, Villeurbanne) (1999; per bibl.); see also J. Oper. Theory 53, No. 1, 49--89 (2005; Zbl 1073.47010)] about power boundedness and similarity to a contraction, some applications of these results to one-dimensional perturbations of the shift operator are investigated. The paper has ten sections, analysing from various points of view the problems of power boundedness and similarity to a contraction.