Rigidity theorems for spherical hyperexpansions (Q371894)

From the abstract: ``The class of spherical hyperexpansions is a multi-variable analog of the class of hyperexpansive operators with spherical isometries and spherical 2-isometries being special subclasses. It is known that in dimension one, an invertible 2-hyperexpansion is unitary. This rigidity theorem allows one to prove a variant of the Berger-Shaw theorem which states that a finitely multi-cyclic 2-hyperexpansion is essentially normal. In the present paper, we seek for multi-variable manifestations of this rigidity theorem. In particular, we provide several conditions on a spherical hyperexpansion which ensure it to be a spherical isometry. We further carry out the analysis of the rigidity theorems at the Calkin algebra level and obtain some conditions for essential normality of a spherical hyperexpansion. In the process, we construct several interesting examples of spherical hyperexpansions which are structurally different from the Drury-Arveson \(m\)-shift.''