Classes of contractions and Harnack domination

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Dilations, extensions, compressions of linear operators (47A20) Ergodic theory of linear operators (47A35) Canonical models for contractions and nonselfadjoint linear operators (47A45)

Abstract: Several properties of the Harnack domination of linear operators acting on Hilbert space with norm less or equal than one are studied. Thus, the maximal elements for this relation are identified as precisely the singular unitary operators, while the minimal elements are shown to be the isometries and the adjoints of isometries. We also show how a large range of properties (e.g. convergence of iterates, peripheral spectrum, ergodic properties) are transfered from a contraction to one that Harnack dominates it.

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Let \(T,T'\) be Hilbert space contractions, i.e., linear operators having norm less than or equal to one. \(T\) is Harnack dominated by \(T'\) (\(T\overset{\text{H}}\prec T'\)) if there exists \(c\geq 1\) such that \(\Re p(T)\leq \Re p(T')\) for any polynomial \(p(z)\) for which \(|z|\leq 1\) implies \(\Re p(z)\geq 0\). Relations between Harnack domination and several properties of the operators \(T\) and \(T'\) are studied in this paper. For example, it is shown that \(T\) is maximal (resp., minimal) with respect to relation \(\overset{\text{H}}\prec\) if and only if it is singular unitary (resp., isometry or coisometry). Other interesting results describe what happens if \(T\) and/or \(T'\) belong to one of the Sz.-Nagy Foiaş classes \(C_{0\cdot},C_{\cdot0}, C_{00}\). The paper also contains some examples of particular operators \(T,T'\) that illustrate the obtained results.

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