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Operators invariant relative to a completely nonunitary contraction

Functional Analysis 2017-05-01 v1

Abstract

Given a contraction A on a Hilbert space H, an operator T on H is said to be A-invariant if <Tx,x>=<TAx,Ax> for every x in H such that ||Ax||=||x||. In the special case in which both defect indices of A are equal to 1, we show that every A-invariant operator is the compression to H of an unbounded linear transformation that commutes with the minimal unitary dilation of A. This result was proved by Sarason under the additional hypothesis that A is of class C_{00}, leading to an intrinsic characterization of the truncated Toeplitz operators. We also adapt to our more general context other results about truncated Toeplitz operators.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08984,
  title  = {Operators invariant relative to a completely nonunitary contraction},
  author = {H. Bercovici and D. Timotin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08984},
  year   = {2017}
}
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