Reducing subspaces of multiplication operators on the Dirichlet space

Abstract: In this paper, we study the reducing subspaces for the multiplication operator by a finite Blaschke product

p h i

on the Dirichlet space

D

. We prove that any two distinct nontrivial minimal reducing subspaces of

M_{p} h i

are orthogonal. When the order

n

of

p h i

is

2

or

3

, we show that

M_{p} h i

is reducible on

D

if and only if

p h i

is equivalent to

z^{n}

. When the order of

p h i

is

4

, we determine the reducing subspaces for

M_{p} h i

, and we see that in this case

M_{p} h i

can be reducible on

D

when

p h i

is not equivalent to

z^{4}

. The same phenomenon happens when the order

n

of

p h i

is not a prime number. Furthermore, we show that

M_{p} h i

is unitarily equivalent to

M_{z^{n}} (n > 1)

on

D

if and only if

p h i = a z^{n}

for some unimodular constant

a

.

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