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Power-bounded operators and related norm estimates

Functional Analysis 2013-06-04 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We consider whether L = limsup_{n to infty} n ||T^{n+1}-T^n|| < infty implies that the operator T is power bounded. We show that this is so if L<1/e, but it does not necessarily hold if L=1/e. As part of our methods, we improve a result of Esterle, showing that if sigma(T) = {1} and T != I, then liminf_{n to infty} n ||T^{n+1}-T^n|| >= 1/e. The constant 1/e is sharp. Finally we describe a way to create many generalizations of Esterle's result, and also give many conditions on an operator which imply that its norm is equal to its spectral radius.

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@article{arxiv.math/0211254,
  title  = {Power-bounded operators and related norm estimates},
  author = {Nigel Kalton and Stephen Montgomery-Smith and Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz and Yuri Tomilov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0211254},
  year   = {2013}
}

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