Chan and Seceleanu have shown that if a weighted shift operator on $\ell^p(\mathbb{Z})$, $1\leq p \lt \infty$, admits an orbit with a non-zero limit point then it is hypercyclic. We present a new proof of this result that allows to extend it to very general sequence spaces. In a similar vein, we show that, in many sequence spaces, a weighted shift with a non-zero weakly sequentially recurrent vector has a dense set of such vectors, but an example on $c_0(\mathbb{Z})$ shows that such an operator is not necessarily hypercyclic. On the other hand, we obtain that weakly sequentially hypercyclic weighted shifts are hypercyclic. Chan and Seceleanu have, moreover, shown that if an adjoint multiplication operator on a Bergman space admits an orbit with a non-zero limit point then it is hypercyclic. We extend this result to very general spaces of analytic functions, including the Hardy spaces.

Let $\mu $ be a finite positive Borel measure on $[0,1)$ and $f(z)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }a_{n}z^{n} \in H(\mathbb {D})$. For $0<\alpha <\infty $, the generalized Cesàro-like operator $\mathcal {C}_{\mu ,\alpha }$ is defined by

$$ \begin{align*}\mathcal {C}_{\mu,\alpha}(f)(z)=\sum^\infty_{n=0}\left(\mu_n\sum^n_{k=0}\frac{\Gamma(n-k+\alpha)}{\Gamma(\alpha)(n-k)!}a_k\right)z^n, \ z\in \mathbb{D}, \end{align*} $$

where, for $n\geq 0$, $\mu _n$ denotes the nth moment of the measure $\mu $, that is, $\mu _n=\int _{0}^{1} t^{n}d\mu (t)$.

For $s>1$, let X be a Banach subspace of $H(\mathbb {D})$ with $\Lambda ^{s}_{\frac {1}{s}}\subset X\subset \mathcal {B}$. In this article, for $1\leq p <\infty $, we characterize the measure $\mu $ for which $\mathcal {C}_{\mu ,\alpha }$ is bounded (resp. compact) from X into the analytic Besov space $B_{p}$.

Let $\varphi : B_d\to \mathbb {D}$, $d\ge 1$, be a holomorphic function, where $B_d$ denotes the open unit ball of $\mathbb {C}^d$ and $\mathbb {D}= B_1$. Let $\Theta : \mathbb {D} \to \mathbb {D}$ be an inner function, and let $K^p_\Theta $ denote the corresponding model space. For $p>1$, we characterize the compact composition operators $C_\varphi : K^p_\Theta \to H^p(B_d)$, where $H^p(B_d)$ denotes the Hardy space.

We provide two constructions of Gaussian random holomorphic sections of a Hermitian holomorphic line bundle $(L,h_{L})$ on a Hermitian complex manifold $(X,\Theta )$, that are particularly interesting in the case where the space of $\mathcal {L}^2$-holomorphic sections $H^{0}_{(2)}(X,L)$ is infinite dimensional. We first provide a general construction of Gaussian random holomorphic sections of L, which, if $H^{0}_{(2)}(X,L)$ is infinite dimensional, are almost never $\mathcal {L}^2$-integrable on X. The second construction combines the abstract Wiener space theory with the Berezin–Toeplitz quantization and yields a Gaussian ensemble of random $\mathcal {L}^2$-holomorphic sections. Furthermore, we study their random zeros in the context of semiclassical limits, including their distributions, large deviation estimates, local fluctuations and hole probabilities.

In sharp contrast to the Hardy space case, the algebraic properties of Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space are quite different and abnormally complicated. In this paper, we study the finite-rank problem for a class of operators consisting of all finite linear combinations of Toeplitz products with monomial symbols on the Bergman space of the unit disk. It turns out that such a problem is equivalent to the problem of when the corresponding finite linear combination of rational functions is zero. As an application, we consider the finite-rank problem for the commutator and semi-commutator of Toeplitz operators whose symbols are finite linear combinations of monomials. In particular, we construct many motivating examples in the theory of algebraic properties of Toeplitz operators.

Let $C_{\varphi }$ be a composition operator on the Bergman space $A^2$ of the unit disc. A well-known problem asks whether the condition $\int _D\big ({1-|z|^2\over 1-|\varphi (z)|^2}\big )^pd\lambda (z) < \infty $ is equivalent to the membership of $C_\varphi $ in the Schatten class ${\mathcal {C}}_p$, $1 < p < \infty $. This was settled in the negative for the case $2 < p < \infty $ in [3]. When $2 < p < \infty $, this condition is not sufficient for $C_\varphi \in {\mathcal {C}}_p$. In this article, we take up the case $1 < p < 2$. We show that when $1 < p < 2$, this condition is not necessary for $C_\varphi \in {\mathcal {C}}_p$.

The article deals with isometric dilation and commutant lifting for a class of n-tuples $(n\ge 3)$ of commuting contractions. We show that operator tuples in the class dilate to tuples of commuting isometries of BCL type. As a consequence of such an explicit dilation, we show that their von Neumann inequality holds on a one-dimensional variety of the closed unit polydisc. On the basis of such a dilation, we prove a commutant lifting theorem of Sarason’s type by establishing that every commutant can be lifted to the dilation space in a commuting and norm-preserving manner. This further leads us to find yet another class of n-tuples $(n\ge 3)$ of commuting contractions each of which possesses isometric dilation.

Let $\mathcal H$ be a complex, separable Hilbert space, and set . When $\dim \, \mathcal H$ is finite, we characterise the set and its norm-closure . In the infinite-dimensional setting, we characterise the intersection of with the set of biquasitriangular operators, and we exhibit an index obstruction to belonging to .

We investigate when the algebraic numerical range is a C-spectral set in a Banach algebra. While providing several counterexamples based on classical ideas as well as combinatorial Banach spaces, we discuss positive results for matrix algebras and provide an absolute constant in the case of complex $2\times 2$-matrices with the induced $1$-norm. Furthermore, we discuss positive results for infinite-dimensional Banach algebras, including the Calkin algebra.

In Dong et al. (2022, Journal of Operator Theory 88, 365–406), the authors addressed the question of whether surjective maps preserving the norm of a symmetric Kubo-Ando mean can be extended to Jordan $\ast $-isomorphisms. The question was affirmatively answered for surjective maps between the positive definite cones of unital $C^{*}$-algebras for certain specific classes of symmetric Kubo-Ando means. Here, we give a comprehensive answer to this question for surjective maps between the positive definite cones of $AW^{*}$-algebras preserving the norm of any symmetric Kubo-Ando mean.

In this paper, we study the cyclicity of the shift operator $S$ acting on a Banach space $\mathcal {X}$ of analytic functions on the open unit disc $\mathbb {D}$. We develop a general framework where a method based on a corona theorem can be used to show that if $f,g\in \mathcal {X}$ satisfy $|g(z)|\leq |f(z)|$, for every $z\in \mathbb {D}$, and if g is cyclic, then f is cyclic. We also give sufficient conditions for cyclicity in this context. This enable us to recapture some recent results obtained in de Branges–Rovnayk spaces, in Besov–Dirichlet spaces and in weighted Dirichlet type spaces.

This article explores the notions of $\mathcal {F}$-transitivity and topological $\mathcal {F}$-recurrence for backward shift operators on weighted $\ell ^p$-spaces and $c_0$-spaces on directed trees, where $\mathcal {F}$ represents a Furstenberg family of subsets of $\mathbb {N}_0$. In particular, we establish the equivalence between recurrence and hypercyclicity of these operators on unrooted directed trees. For rooted directed trees, a backward shift operator is hypercyclic if and only if it possesses an orbit of a bounded subset that is weakly dense.

In this paper, we study the ranges of the Schwartz space $\mathcal {S}$ and its dual $\mathcal {S}'$ (space of tempered distributions) under the Bargmann transform. The characterization of these two ranges leads to interesting reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces whose reproducing kernels can be expressed, respectively, in terms of the Touchard polynomials and the hypergeometric functions. We investigate the main properties of some associated operators and introduce two generalized Bargmann transforms in this framework. This can be considered as a continuation of an interesting research path that Neretin started earlier in his book on Gaussian integral operators.

We give sufficient conditions for the essential spectrum of the Hermitian square of a class of Hankel operators on the Bergman space of the polydisc to contain intervals. We also compute the spectrum in case the symbol is a monomial.

McCullough and Trent generalize Beurling–Lax–Halmos invariant subspace theorem for the shift on Hardy space of the unit disk to the multi-shift on Drury–Arveson space of the unit ball by representing an invariant subspace of the multi-shift as the range of a multiplication operator that is a partial isometry. By using their method, we obtain similar representations for a class of invariant subspaces of the multi-shifts on Hardy and Bergman spaces of the unit ball or polydisk. Our results are surprisingly general and include several important classes of invariant subspaces on the unit ball or polydisk.

In this paper, we study the embedding problem of an operator into a strongly continous semigroup. We obtain characterizations for some classes of operators, namely composition operators and analytic Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space $H^2$. In particular, we focus on the isometric ones using the necessary and sufficient condition observed by T. Eisner.

This article describes Hilbert spaces contractively contained in certain reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces of analytic functions on the open unit disc which are nearly invariant under division by an inner function. We extend Hitt’s theorem on nearly invariant subspaces of the backward shift operator on $H^2(\mathbb {D})$ as well as its many generalizations to the setting of de Branges spaces.

We characterize the compact elements and the hypocompact radical of a crossed product $C_0(X)\times _\phi \mathbb Z$, where X is a locally compact metrizable space and $\phi :X\rightarrow X$ is a homeomorphism, in terms of the corresponding dynamical system $(X,\phi )$.

We study the many-body localization (MBL) properties of the Heisenberg XXZ spin-$\frac 12$ chain in a random magnetic field. We prove that the system exhibits localization in any given energy interval at the bottom of the spectrum in a nontrivial region of the parameter space. This region, which includes weak interaction and strong disorder regimes, is independent of the size of the system and depends only on the energy interval. Our approach is based on the reformulation of the localization problem as an expression of quasi-locality for functions of the random many-body XXZ Hamiltonian. This allows us to extend the fractional moment method for proving localization, previously derived in a single-particle localization context, to the many-body setting.

Our primary result concerns the positivity of specific kernels constructed using the q-ultraspherical polynomials. In other words, it concerns a two-parameter family of bivariate, compactly supported distributions. Moreover, this family has a property that all its conditional moments are polynomials in the conditioning random variable. The significance of this result is evident for individuals working on distribution theory, orthogonal polynomials, q-series theory, and the so-called quantum polynomials. Therefore, it may have a limited number of interested researchers. That is why, we put our results into a broader context. We recall the theory of Hilbert–Schmidt operators and the idea of Lancaster expansions (LEs) of the bivariate distributions absolutely continuous with respect to the product of their marginal distributions. Applications of LE can be found in Mathematical Statistics or the creation of Markov processes with polynomial conditional moments (the most well-known of these processes is the famous Wiener process).