ON k-HYPONORMAL WEIGHTED TRANSLATION SEMIGROUPS (Q4792599)

Let \(H\) be a separable, infinite-dimensional, complex Hilbert space and \(B(H)\) the algebra of all bounded linear operators on \(H\). An \(n\)-tuple \(\mathbb{T}= (T_1,\dots, T_n)\) of operators in \(B(H)\) is called hyponormal if the operator matrix \(([T^*_j, T_i])^n_{i,j=1}\) is positive on \(H\oplus\cdots\oplus H\). For a natural number \(k\) and \(T\in B(H)\), \(T\) is called \(k\)-hyponormal if \((I,T,\dots, T^k)\) is hyponormal. A weighted translation semigroup \(\{S_t\}\) on \(L^2\) is defined by \((S_t f)(x)= (\phi(x)/\phi(x- t)) f(x- t)\) if \(x\geq t\) and \(0\) otherwise, where \(\phi\) is a continuous nonzero complex-valued function on \(\mathbb{R}_+\). In this paper, the authors give a characterization of \(k\)-hyponormality of weighted translation semigroups with symbol \(\phi\).