We study a class of left-invertible operators which we call weakly concave operators. It includes the class of concave operators and some subclasses of expansive strict $m$-isometries with $m > 2$. We prove a Wold-type decomposition for weakly concave operators. We also obtain a Berger–Shaw-type theorem for analytic finitely cyclic weakly concave operators. The proofs of these results rely heavily on a spectral dichotomy for left-invertible operators. It provides a fairly close relationship, written in terms of the reciprocal automorphism of the Riemann sphere, between the spectra of a left-invertible operator and any of its left inverses. We further place the class of weakly concave operators, as the term $\mathcal {A}_1$, in the chain $\mathcal {A}_0 \subseteq \mathcal {A}_1 \subseteq \ldots \subseteq \mathcal {A}_{\infty }$ of collections of left-invertible operators. We show that most of the aforementioned results can be proved for members of these classes. Subtleties arise depending on whether the index $k$ of the class $\mathcal {A}_k$ is finite or not. In particular, a Berger–Shaw-type theorem fails to be true for members of $\mathcal {A}_{\infty }$. This discrepancy is better revealed in the context of $C^*$- and $W^*$-algebras.

A commuting family of subnormal operators need not have a commuting normal extension. We study when a representation of an abelian semigroup can be extended to a normal representation, and show that it suffices to extend the set of generators to commuting normals. We also extend a result due to Athavale to representations on abelian lattice ordered semigroups.

For every subnormal $m$-variable weighted shift $S$ (with bounded positive weights), there is a corresponding positive Reinhardt measure $\mu $ supported on a compact Reinhardt subset of ${{\mathbb{C}}^{m}}$. We show that, for $m\,\ge \,2$, the dimensions of the 1-st cohomology vector spaces associated with the Koszul complexes of $S$ and its dual $\widetilde{S}$ are different if a certain radial function happens to be integrable with respect to μ (which is indeed the case with many classical examples). In particular, $S$ cannot in that case be similar to $\widetilde{S}$. We next prove that, for $m\,\ge \,2$, a Fredholm subnormal $m$-variable weighted shift $S$ cannot be similar to its dual.

In this paper we consider the following ‘Toeplitz completion’ problem: Complete the unspecified analytic Toeplitz entries of the partial block Toeplitz matrix

$ \begin{linenomath} A:=\begin{bmatrix} T_{\overline\psi_1}& ?\\[4pt] \T_{\overline\psi_2} \end{bmatrix} \end{linenomath} $

We study the Friedrichs extensions of unbounded cyclic subnormals. The main result of the present paper is the identification of the Friedrichs extensions of certain cyclic subnormals with their closures. This generalizes as well as complements the main result obtained in [5]. Such characterizations lead to abstract Galerkin approximations, generalized wave equations, and bounded -functional calculi.

We employ techniques from the theory of disintegration of measures to study the Lifting Problem for commuting $n$-tuples of subnormal weighted shifts. We obtain a new necessary condition for the existence of a lifting, and generate new pathology associated with bringing together the Berger measures associated to each individual weighted shift. For subnormal $2$-variable weighted shifts, we then find the precise relation between the Berger measure of the pair and the Berger measures of the shifts associated to horizontal rows and vertical columns of weights.

An operator $T$ on a Banach space $X$ is said to be weakly supercyclic (respectively $N$-supercyclic) if there exists a one-dimensional (respectively $N$-dimensional) subspace of $X$ whose orbit under $T$ is weakly dense (respectively norm dense) in $X$. We show that a weakly supercyclic hyponormal operator is necessarily a multiple of a unitary operator, and we give an example of a weakly supercyclic unitary operator. On the other hand, we show that hyponormal operators are never $N$-supercyclic. Finally, we characterize $N$-supercyclic weighted shifts.

Let $B(H)$ denote the algebra of all bounded linear operators on a separable, infinite-dimensional, complex Hilbert space $H$. Let $I$ be a two-sided ideal in $B(H)$. For operators $A, B$ and $X \in B(H)$, we say that $X$intertwines$A$and$B$modulo$I$ if $AX - XB \in I$. It is easy to see that if $X$ intertwines $A$ and $B$ modulo $I$, then it intertwines $A^{n}$ and $B^{n}$ modulo $I$ for every integer $n > $1. However, the converse is not true. In this paper, sufficient conditions on the operators $A$ and $B$ are given so that any operator $X$ which intertwines certain powers of $A$ and $B$ modulo $I$ also intertwines $A$ and $B$ modulo $J$ for some two-sided ideal $J \supseteq I$.

We combine the theory of sectorial sesquilinear forms with the theory of unbounded subnormal operators in Hilbert spaces to characterize the Friedrichs extensions of multiplication operators (with analytic symbols) in certain functional Hilbert spaces. Such characterizations lead to abstract Galerkin approximations and generalized wave equations.

In [11] the authors obtained an operator matrix with two variables that distinguishes the classes of $p$-hyponormal operators, $w$-hyponormal, absolute-$p$-paranormal, and normaloid operators on Hilbert spaces. We establish the general model for $n$ variables, which provides many more examples to show that such classes are distinct.

Characterizations of subnormality due to Trent are extended to finite systems of operators, thus generalizing results of Gãvruţã and Suciu (subnormal pairs) and Binzar and Pãunescu (subnormal triplets). Vector and operator multidimensional moment problems with jointly subnormal solutions are characterized entirely in terms of the initial data. Bounded as well as unbounded solutions are taken into consideration.

Associated with $T=U|T|$ (polar decomposition) in ${\cal{L}}({\bf H})$ is a related operator $\skew3\tilde{T} = |T|^{\frac{1}{2}}U|T|^{\frac{1}{2}}$, called the Aluthge transform of $T$. In this paper we study some connections between $T$ and $\skew3\tilde{T}$, including the following relations; the single valued extension property, an analogue of the single valued extension property on $W^{m}(D, {\bf H})$, Dunford's property $(C)$ and the property $(\beta)$.

The notion of a completely hyperexpansive operator has been introduced in [1] by Athavale. In this paper hyperexpansive operator valued unilateral weighted shifts are investigated. A unique semispectral measure is associated with a bounded completely hyperexpansive operator valued unilateral weighted shift with invertible weights. Examples of bounded and unbounded hyperexpansive operator valued unilateral weighted shifts with invariant domains are given.

In this paper, the commutators of singular integrals with rough kernels are considered. By the method of block decomposition for kernel function and Fourier transform estimates, some new results about the Lp(ℝn) boundedness for these commutators are obtained.

In this paper we show that the normal parts of quasisimilar log-hyponormal operators are unitarily equivalent. A Fuglede-Putnam type theorem for log-hyponormal operators is proved. Also, it is shown that a log-hyponormal operator that is quasisimilar to an isometry is unitary and that a log-hyponormal spectral operator is normal.

Let $A$ (resp. $B$) be a bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space $ {\mathcal H}$ (resp. $ {\mathcal K}$). We show that the tensor product $ A \otimes B $ is log-hyponormal if and only if $A$ and $B$ are log-hyponormal, and that a similar result holds for class $A(s,t)$ operators.

Extending results and methods of Thomson and Trent, we prove the existence of non trivial quasi-invariant subspaces for subnormal families of unbounded operators having sufficiently rich domains. In some special cases, proper invariant subspaces are obtained.

Let ${{A}_{i}},\,{{B}_{i}}$ and ${{X}_{i}}\,(i\,=\,1,\,2,\ldots ,\,n)$ be operators on a separable Hilbert space. It is shown that if $f$ and $g$ are nonnegative continuous functions on $\left[ 0,\infty \right)$ which satisfy the relation $f\,(t)g(t)\,=\,t$ for all $t$ in $\left[ 0,\infty \right)$, then

$${{\left\| \left| \,{{\left| \sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}{A_{i}^{*}{{X}_{i}}{{B}_{i}}} \right|}^{r}} \right| \right\|}^{2}}\,\le \,\left\| \left| {{\left( \sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}{A_{i}^{*}f{{(\left| X_{i}^{*} \right|)}^{2}}{{A}_{i}}} \right)}^{r}} \right| \right\|\,\,\left\| \left| {{\left( \sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}{B_{i}^{*}g{{(\left| {{X}_{i}} \right|)}^{2}}\,{{B}_{i}}} \right)}^{r}} \right| \right\|$$

for every $r\,>\,0$ and for every unitarily invariant norm. This result improves some known Cauchy-Schwarz type inequalities. Norm inequalities related to the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality and the classical Heinz inequalities are also obtained.

Let μ be a finite positive Borel measure on the closed unit disc . For each a in , put where ƒ ranges over all analytic polynomials with f(a) = 1. This upper semicontinuous function S(a) is called a Riesz's function and studied in detail. Moreover several applications are given to weighted Bergman and Hardy spaces.