Consider the multiplication operator MB in $L^2(\mathbb{T})$, where the symbol B is a finite Blaschke product. In this article, we characterize the commutant of MB in $L^2(\mathbb{T})$. As an application of this characterization result, we explicitly determine the class of conjugations commuting with $M_{z^2}$ or making $M_{z^2}$ complex symmetric by introducing a new class of conjugations in $L^2(\mathbb{T})$. Moreover, we analyse their properties while keeping the whole Hardy space, model space and Beurling-type subspaces invariant. Furthermore, we extended our study concerning conjugations in the case of finite Blaschke products.

A bounded linear operator $T$ on a Banach space $X$ is an abstract backward shift if the nullspace of $T$ is one dimensional, and the union of the null spaces of ${{T}^{k}}$ for all $k\,\ge \,1$ is dense in $X$. In this paper it is shown that the commutant of an abstract backward shift is an integral domain. This result is used to derive properties of operators in the commutant.

Let f be a function in H∞. We show that if f is inner or if the commutant of the analytic Toeplitz operator Tf is equal to that of Tb for some finite Blaschke product b, then any analytic Toeplitz operator quasisimilar to Tf is unitarily equivalent to Tf.

We prove the following statements about bounded linear operators on a complex separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space. (1) Let A and B* be subnormal operators. If A2X = XB2 and A3X = XB3 for some operator X, then AX = XB. (2) Let A and B* be subnormal operators. If A2X – XB2 ∈ Cp and A3X – XB3 ∈ Cp for some operator X, then AX − XB ∈ C8p. (3) Let T be an operator such that 1 − T*T ∈ Cp for some p ≥1. If T2X − XT2 ∈ Cp and T3X – XT3 ∈ Cp for some operator X, then TX − XT ∈ Cp. (4) Let T be a semi-Fredholm operator with ind T < 0. If T2X − XT2 ∈ C2 and T3X − XT3 ∈ C2 for some operator X, then TX − XT ∈ C2.