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The orbit of a bounded operator under the M\"{o}bius group modulo similarity equivalence

Functional Analysis 2018-11-14 v1

Abstract

Let M\"{o}b denote the group of biholomorphic automorphisms of the unit disc and (\mboxMo¨bT)(\mbox{M\"{o}b} \cdot T) be the orbit of a Hilbert space operator TT under the action of M\"{o}b. If the quotient (\mboxMo¨bT)/(\mbox{M\"{o}b} \cdot T)/\sim, where \sim is the similarity between two operators is a singleton, then the operator TT is said to be weakly homogeneous. In this paper, we obtain a criterion to determine if the operator MzM_z of multiplication by the coordinate function zz on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space is weakly homogeneous. We use this to show that there exists a M\"{o}bius bounded weakly homogeneous operator which is not similar to any homogeneous operator, answering a question of Bagchi and Misra in the negative. Some necessary conditions for the M\"{o}bius boundedness of a weighted shift are also obtained. As a consequence, it is shown that the Dirichlet shift is not M\"{o}bius bounded.

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@article{arxiv.1811.05428,
  title  = {The orbit of a bounded operator under the M\"{o}bius group modulo similarity equivalence},
  author = {Soumitra Ghara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05428},
  year   = {2018}
}

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24 pages