Cyclicity of bicyclic operators and completeness of translates (Q2482694)

The main purpose of the present paper is to give conditions under which an injective operator \(T:X\to X\) on a Banach space \(X\) that admits a bicyclic vector is necessarily cyclic. A vector \(x\in X\) is bicyclic for \(T\) if it admits a (unique, since \(T\) is injective) backward orbit \(\{ T^nx\mid n=-1,-2,\dots \}\) such that the full orbit \(\{ T^nx\mid n\in \mathbb Z\}\) is dense in \(X\). The vector \(x\) is cyclic if the forward orbit \(\{ T^nx\mid n\in \mathbb N\}\) is dense in \(X\). The authors show that, under certain conditions on the growth of the (forward and backward) iterates of \(T\) on a bicyclic vector \(x\), and asuming that the point spectrum of the adjoint of \(T\) does not contain the unit circle, the operator \(T\) is cyclic. The general results are applied to the bilateral shift operator on weighted sequence spaces, obtaining partial answers to some open problems. Some interesting consequences concerning the completeness of translates in certain function spaces are also obtained.