We establish the following result, confirming a conjecture of Jean Esterle. For each closed subset $E$ of the unit circle of Lebesgue measure zero, there exists a positive sequence $u_n\to\infty$ with the following property: if $T$ is a contraction on a Hilbert space such that $σ(T)\subset E$ and $\|T^{-n}\|=O(u_n)$ as $n\to\infty$, then $T$ is a unitary operator.
A key tool used in the proof is a result generalizing the well-known fact that closed subsets $E$ of the real axis of Lebesgue measure zero are removable for bounded holomorphic functions. We show that such sets remain removable even for certain unbounded holomorphic functions of moderate growth near $E$, where the notion of `moderate' depends on $E$.
A contraction $T$ on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ is said to be pure if the sequence $\lbrace T^{*n} \rbrace_{n}$ converges to $0$ in the strong operator topology. In this article, we prove that for contractions $T$, which commute with certain tractable tuples of commuting operators $X = (X_1,\ldots,X_n)$ on $\mathcal{H}$, the following statements are equivalent: (i) $T$ is a pure contraction on $\mathcal{H}$, (ii) the compression $P_{\mathcal{W}(X)}T|_{\mathcal{W}(X)}$ is a pure contraction, where $\mathcal{W}(X)$ is the wandering subspace corresponding to the tuple $X$. An operator-valued m…
Given a closed linear relation $T$ between two Hilbert spaces $\mathcal H$ and $\mathcal K$, the corresponding first and second coordinate projections $P_T$ and $Q_T$ are both linear contractions from $T$ to $\mathcal H$, and to $\mathcal K$, respectively. In this paper we investigate the features of these graph contractions. We show among others that $P_T^{}P_T^*=(I+T^*T)^{-1}$, and that $Q_T^{}Q_T^*=I-(I+TT^*)^{-1}$. The ranges $\operatorname{ran} P_T^{*}$ and $\operatorname{ran} Q_T^{*}$ are proved to be closely related to the so called `regular part' of $T$. The connection of the graph pro…
On extreme contractions and the norm attainment set of a bounded linear operator
本文完全刻划了希尔伯特空间上有界线性算子的模可达集。这部分回答了最近在[ \textit{D. Sain, On the norm attainment set of a bounded linear operator, accepted in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications} ]中提出的一个问题。我们进一步研究了各种类型的有限维巴拿赫空间，即欧几里得空间和严格凸空间上的极端压缩。特别是，我们给出了一个基本的替代证明著名的表征极端收缩的希尔伯特空间，这同样适用于真实和复杂的情况。作为我们探索的一个应用，我们证明了在实巴拿赫空间中，用实Hilbert空间的二维子空间上的极端压缩来刻画实希尔伯特空间是可能的。
The fundamental result of B. Sz. Nazy states that every contraction has a coisometric extension and a unitary dilation. The isometric dilation of a contraction on a Hilbert space motivated whether this theory can be extended sensibly to families of operators. It is natural to ask whether this idea can be generalized, where the contraction $T$ is substituted by a commuting $n$-tuples of operators $(S_1,\cdots, S_n)$ acting on some Hilbert space having $Γ_n$ as a spectral set. We derive the necessary conditions for the existence of a $Γ_n$-isometric dilation for $Γ_n$-contractions. Also we discu…
A commuting triple of Hilbert space operators $(A,B,P)$, for which the closed tetrablock $\bar{\mathbb E}$ is a spectral set, is called a \textit{tetrablock-contraction} or simply an $\mathbb E$-\textit{contraction}, where \[ \mathbb E=\{(a_{11},a_{22}, \det A):\, A=[a_{ij}]\in \mathcal M_2(\mathbb C), \; \|A\| <1 \} \subset \mathbb C^3 \] is a polynomially convex domain which is naturally associated with the $μ$-synthesis problem. We introduce triangular $\mathbb E$-contractions and prove that every pure triangular $\mathbb E$-contraction dilates to a pure triangular $\mathbb E$-isometry. We …
We develop a Sz.-Nagy--Foias-type functional model for a commutative contractive operator tuple $\underline{T} = (T_1, \dots, T_d)$ having $T = T_1 \cdots T_d$ equal to a completely nonunitary contraction. We identify additional invariants ${\mathbb G}_\sharp, {\mathbb W}_\sharp$ in addition to the Sz.-Nagy--Foias characteristic function $Θ_T$ for the product operator $T$ so that the combined triple $({\mathbb G}_\sharp, {\mathbb W}_\sharp, Θ_T)$ becomes a complete unitary invariant for the original operator tuple $\underline{T}$. For the case $d \ge 3$ in general there is no commutative isome…
Let $n>1$, and $\{U_{ij}\}$ for $1 \leq i < j \leq n$ be $\binom{n}{2}$ commuting unitaries on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ such that $U_{ji}:=U^*_{ij}$. An $n$-tuple of contractions $(T_1, \dots, T_n)$ on $\mathcal{H}$ is called $\mathcal{U}_n$-twisted contraction with respect to a twist $\{U_{ij}\}_{i<j}$ if $T_1, \dots, T_n$ satisfy \[ T_iT_j=U_{ij}T_jT_i; \hspace{0.5cm} \hspace{1cm} T_i^*T_j= U^*_{ij}T_jT_i^* \hspace{0.5cm} \mbox{and} \hspace{0.5cm} T_kU_{ij} =U_{ij}T_k \] for all $i,j,k=1, \dots, n$ and $i \neq j$. We obtain a recipe to calculate the orthogonal spaces of the Wold-type de…
Suppose $L(H)$ is the space of all bounded linear operators on a complex Hilbert space $H.$ This article deals with the problem of characterizing the extreme contractions of $L(H)$ with respect to the numerical radius norm on $L(H).$ In contrast to the usual operator norm, it is proved that there exists a class of unitary operators on $H$ which are not extreme contractions when the numerical radius norm is considered on $L(H).$ Moreover, there are non-unitary operators on $H$ which are extreme contractions as far as the numerical radius norm is concerned.
We consider a Hilbert space that is a product of a finite number of Hilbert spaces and operators that are represented by "componental operators" acting on the Hilbert spaces that form the product space. We attribute operatorial properties to the componental operators rather than to the full operators. The operatorial properties that we discuss include nonexpansivity, firm non-expansivity, relaxed firm nonexpansivity, averagedness, being a cutter, quasi-nonexpansivity, strong quasi-nonexpansivity, strict quasi-nonexpansivity and contraction. Some relationships between operators whose componenta…
