Multiplicities of isometries (Q796805)

For a bounded linear operator T on a complex Hilbert space H, its multiplicity \(\mu_ T\) is the smallest cardinality of a subset K of H for which \(H=\bigvee^{\infty}_{n=0}T^ nK.\) Let \(H_ 1\) be an invariant subspace for T and \(T_ 1=T| H_ 1.\) If H is finite- dimensional, then \(\mu_{T_ 1}\leq \mu_ T\). This is in general not true for infinite-dimensional H even when T is a normal operator. In this paper, we show that if T is an isometry, then \(\mu_{T_ 1}\leq \mu_ T\) holds.