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Numerical ranges of Foguel operators revisited

Functional Analysis 2022-04-12 v1

Abstract

The Foguel operator is defined as FT=[ST0S]F_T=\begin{bmatrix}S^* & T \\ 0 & S\end{bmatrix}, where SS is the right shift on a Hilbert space H\mathcal H and TT can be an arbitrary bounded linear operator acting on H\mathcal H. Obviously, the numerical range W(F0)W(F_0) of FTF_T with T=0T=0 is the open unit disk, and it was suggested by Gau, Wang and Wu in their LAA'2021 paper that W(FaI)W(F_{aI}) for non-zero aCa\in\mathbb C might be an elliptical disk. In this paper, we described W(FaI)W(F_{aI}) explicitly and, as it happens, it is not.

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@article{arxiv.2204.04631,
  title  = {Numerical ranges of Foguel operators revisited},
  author = {Muyan Jiang and Ilya M. Spitkovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04631},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures