Preservation of absolutely continuous spectrum for contractive operators

Abstract: We consider contractive operators

T

that are trace class perturbations of a unitary operator

U

. We prove that the dimension functions of the absolutely continuous spectrum of

T

,

T^{*}

and of

U

coincide. In particular, if

U

has a purely singular spectrum then the characteristic function

h e t a

of

T

is a two-sided inner function, i.e.

h e t a (x i)

is unitary a.e. on

m a t h b b T

. Some corollaries of this result are related to investigations of the asymptotic stability of the operators

T

and

T^{*}

(convergence

T^{n} o 0

and

(T^{*})^{n} o 0

, respectively, in the strong operator topology). The proof is based on an explicit computation of the characteristic function.

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