Extremal growth of powers of operators satisfying resolvent conditions of Kreiss-Ritt type (Q1865323)

Let \(E\) be a general compact subset of the unit circle \(S^1\) in the complex plane. Let \(T\) be a bounded linear operator on a complex Banach space \(X\). In this interesting paper, the authors determine the extremal rate of growth of the sequence of norms \((\|T^n\|)_n\) for operators \(T\) satisfying a resolvent condition of the form \(\|(T-\lambda I)^{-1}\|\leq C/\text{dist}(\lambda,E)\), \(|\lambda|> 1.\) The extreme cases are \(E=S^1\), which is the Kreiss condition, and \(E=\{1\}\), which is the Ritt condition. Theorem 1.1 in the paper shows that \(\|T^{n-1}\|\leq (eC^2/2)\phi_E(n)\), \(n \geq 1\), where \(\phi_E(n)=(n/\pi)\mu(E_{\pi/2n})\), \(\mu\) being the Lebesgue measure and \[ E_{\delta}:= \{e^{i\varphi}: |\varphi - \theta|\leq \delta \text{ for some } e^{i \theta} \in E \}, \quad \delta>0. \] The function \(\phi_E(n)\) shows that the cardinality, the measure and the Hausdorff dimension of the compact set \(E\) play a role in determining the growth of the sequence \((\|T^n\|)_n\). As a by-product, the authors obtain in Theorem 1.7 lower bounds for the Taylor coefficients of holomorphic functions \(f\) on the unit disc which satisfy \(|f(z)|\geq 1/\text{dist}(z,E)\), \(|z|<1\). In the final section, estimates of the function \(\phi_E(n)\) are presented for certain sets \(E\), such as Carlesson sets.