On the limits of Cesàro means of polynomial powers (Q636767)

The Cesàro means of polynomial powers of contractive operators in Hilbert spaces converge strongly. In the paper it is studied the question of wether the limit is a projection. It is shown that the only polynomials leading to projections for any operator are of degree at most one. It is found a spectral characterisation of operators in Hilbert spaces that have a projection as the limit of their Cesàro means for every reasonable polynomial.