Quasisimilarity of power bounded operators and Blum-Hanson property (Q886135)

Let \(H, K\) be complex Hilbert spaces and let \(T, S\) be Hilbert space operators acting on \(H\) and \(K\), respectively. We recall that the operators \(T\) and \(S\) are said to be quasisimilar if there are injective operators with dense range \(A:H\to K\) and \(B:K\to H\) such that \(AT=SA\) and \(TB=BS\). The aim of this paper is to construct a power bounded operator on a Hilbert space which is not quasisimilar to a contraction. In fact, the authors solve an open problem from operator ergodic theory, showing that there are power bounded Hilbert space operators without the Blum--Hanson property, which leads them to an answer to the previous question. (An operator \(T\) on \(H\) is said to have the Blum--Hanson property if for each \(x\in H\) and every increasing sequence of positive integers \((k_n)\), the limit \(\lim_{N\to\infty}N^{-1} \sum_{n=1}^N T^{k_n}x\) exists in the norm topology.) Other questions are also answered in this interesting paper, written along the lines of the classical questions raised by Sz.-Nagy and Halmos concerning Hilbert space contractions.