Hypercyclicity and supercyclicity for invertible bilateral weighted shifts (Q4779853)

A bounded linear operator \(T:X\to X\) on a separable Banach space \(X\) is hypercyclic (respectively, supercyclic) if there are vectors \(x \in X\) such that the orbit \(\{ x, Tx, T^2x, \dots \}\) (respectively, the set of multiples of the orbit \(\{ \lambda T^nx \;; \;\lambda \in \mathbb{C}, \;n=0,1,\dots \}\)) is dense in \(X\). A bilateral weighted shift \(T\) on the Hilbert space of 2-summable sequences \(\ell^2(\mathbb{Z})\) with positive weights \(\{ w_n\}\) is defined on the basis elements as \(Te_n=w_ne_{n+1}\) for all \(n \in \mathbb{Z}\). \textit{H. N. Salas} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 347, 993--1004 (1995; Zbl 0822.47030); Stud. Math. 135, 55--74 (1999; Zbl 0940.47005)] characterized the hypercyclic (respectively, supercyclic) weighted shifts in terms of their weight sequences. Nicer formulations of these characterizations are obtained in the paper under review for the particular case of invertible weighted shifts. An example is also provided showing that the formulation is not sufficient for hypercyclicity of non-invertible weighted shifts. The author finally observes that invertibility can be relaxed to obtain the same formulations, and characterizes hypercyclicity and supercyclicity for direct sums of invertible weighted shifts.