When is a scaled contraction hypercyclic? (Q2041873)

Let \(H\) be a separable, infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space and let \(T\) be a bounded linear operator on \(H\). The author studies the set \(\Lambda(T)\) (which I would like to call the hypercyclicity range of \(T\)) of all scalars \(\lambda\in \mathbb C\) for which \(S:=\lambda T\) is a hypercyclic operator (meaning that there is \(x\in H\) for which its orbit \(\{S^nx: n\in \mathbb N\}\) is dense in \(H\)). Badea, Grivaux and Mueller e.g. unveiled an invertible bilateral weighted shift \(T\) on \(\ell_2(\mathbb Z)\) such that \(T\) and \(3T\) are hypercyclic, but not \(2T\) [\textit{C. Badea} et al., Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 137, No. 4, 1397--1403 (2009; Zbl 1168.47007)]. Many known results on the hypercyclicity of these scalar multiples are revisited, making the whole a nice easy readable survey. It is also shown that for any hypercyclic operator \(T\) on \(H\) every connected component of the essential spectrum \(\sigma_e(T)\) meets the unit circle, extending the corresponding result for the spectrum itself. In particular, if \(T\) is essentially quasi-nilpotent, then \(\Lambda(T)=\Lambda(T^*)=\emptyset\).