Maximizing numerical radii of weighted shifts under weight permutations (Q442482)

Let \(S_n\) be the symmetric group of all permutations on \(\{1,2,\dots, n\}\) and \(w_1,\dots,w_n\in\mathbb{C}\). For \(l\in S_n\), let \(A_l\) be the weighted cyclic matrix with weights \((w_{l(i)})_{i=1}^n\). The main theorem of Section 2 states necessary and sufficient conditions for \(\xi\in S_n\) so that \(w_{\xi}=\sup_{l\in S_n}w(A_l)\), where \(w(A)\) stands for the numerical radius of \(A\). In Section 3, the authors consider this problem for infinite dimensional spaces and prove similar results for unilateral and bilateral weighted backward shifts.