Quasiaffine orbits of invariant subspaces for uniform Jordan operators (Q2253100)

Starting from the paper [\textit{H. Bercovici}, ibid. 95, No. 2, 344--363 (1991; Zbl 0773.47001)], where the question was raised to describe the quasiaffine orbit of a given invariant subspace for an operator of class \(C_0\), since any \(C_0\) contraction is the compression of a uniform Jordan operator, this paper studies the quasiaffine orbits of invariant subspaces for uniform Jordan operators. After background and preliminaries, it is proved that, if \(M_1\subset {\mathcal H}_1\) and \(M_2\subset {\mathcal H}_2\) are invariant subspaces for \(T_1\in {\mathcal B}({\mathcal H}_1)\) and \(T_2\in {\mathcal B}({\mathcal H}_2)\), respectively, and \(M_2\) lies in the quasiaffine orbit of \(M_1\), then \(T_1|M_1\) and \(T_2|M_2\) are quasisimilar and the compression \((T_2)_{M_2^\bot}\) can be injected in the compression \((T_1)_{M_1^\bot}\) (Proposition 2.8). The main result of the paper is the fact that the converse of Proposition 2.8 holds when \(T_1=T_2\) are uniform Jordan operators, consequently it is proved that, if \(M_1\) and \(M_2\) are invariant subspaces of a uniform Jordan operator \(T\), then \(M_2\) lies in the quasiaffine orbit of \(M_1\) if and only if \(T_1|M_1\) and \(T_2|M_2\) are quasisimilar and the compression \((T_2)_{M_2^\bot}\) can be injected in the compression \((T_1)_{M_1^\bot}\) (Theorem 3.4). Finally, relaxing the assumption on \(T\) being a uniform Jordan operator, an analogous result is obtained in the case where \(T\) is quasisimilar to a uniform Jordan operator.