Operators polynomially isometric to a normal operator

Abstract: Let

m a t h c a l H

be a complex, separable Hilbert space and

m a t h c a l B (m a t h c a l H)

denote the algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on

m a t h c a l H

. Given a unitarily-invariant norm

| c d o t |_{u}

on

m a t h c a l B (m a t h c a l H)

and two linear operators

A

and

B

in

m a t h c a l B (m a t h c a l H)

, we shall say that

A

and

B

are emph{polynomially isometric relative to}

| c d o t |_{u}

if

| p (A) |_{u} = | p (B) |_{u}

for all polynomials

p

. In this paper, we examine to what extent an operator

A

being polynomially isometric to a normal operator

N

implies that

A

is itself normal. More explicitly, we first show that if

| c d o t |_{u}

is any unitarily-invariant norm on

m a t h b b M_{n} (m a t h b b C)

, if

A, N i n m a t h b b M_{n} (m a t h b b C)

are polynomially isometric and

N

is normal, then

A

is normal. We then extend this result to the infinite-dimensional setting by showing that if

A, N i n m a t h c a l B (m a t h c a l H)

are polynomially isometric relative to the operator norm and

N

is a normal operator whose spectrum neither disconnects the plane nor has interior, then

A

is normal, while if the spectrum of

N

is not of this form, then there always exists a non-normal operator

B

such that

B

and

N

are polynomially isometric. Finally, we show that if

A

and

N

are compact operators with

N

normal, and if

A

and

N

are polynomially isometric with respect to the

(c, p)

-norm studied by Chan, Li and Tu, then

A

is again normal.

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