Dilations of contraction cocycles and cocycle perturbations of the translation group of the line (Q2473630)

The authors return to studying a certain class of multiplicative (unitary ``cocycle'') perturbations \(W\) of the translation group \(S\) on \(L^2(\mathbb R)\). Relaxing spectral requirements [cf.\ \textit{G.\,Amosov} and \textit{A.\,Baranov}, Proc.\ Am.\ Math.\ Soc.\ 132, 3269--3273 (2004; Zbl 1070.47029)] on a unitary \(C_0\)-group \(U\) on the H-space \(K\), the main result is the unitary equivalence of \((U_t \oplus S_t)_{t\in \mathbb R}\) to some \((W_tS_t)_{t\in \mathbb R}\) where, in particular, all \(W_t - I\) are of Hilbert--Schmidt class. [For Part II, see ibid., No.\,5, 719--720 (2006; Zbl 1147.47031), reviewed below.]