The Square Root Problem and Subnormal Aluthge Transforms of Recursively Generated Weighted Shifts

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Main Authors: Curto, Raul E., Azhar, Hamza El, Omari, Youssef, Zerouali, El Hassan
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Published: 2023
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author Curto, Raul E.
Azhar, Hamza El
Omari, Youssef
Zerouali, El Hassan
author_facet Curto, Raul E.
Azhar, Hamza El
Omari, Youssef
Zerouali, El Hassan
contents For recursively generated shifts, we provide definitive answers to two outstanding problems in the theory of unilateral weighted shifts: the Subnormality Problem ({\bf SP}) (related to the Aluthge transform) and the Square Root Problem ({\bf SRP}) (which deals with Berger measures of subnormal shifts). We use the Mellin Transform and the theory of exponential polynomials to establish that ({\bf SP}) and ({\bf SRP}) are equivalent if and only if a natural functional equation holds for the canonically associated Mellin transform. For $p$--atomic measures with $p \le 6$, our main result provides a new and simple proof of the above-mentioned equivalence. Subsequently, we obtain an example of a $7$--atomic measure for which the equivalence fails. This provides a negative answer to a problem posed by G.R. Exner in 2009, and to a recent conjecture formulated by R.E. Curto et al in 2019.
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spellingShingle The Square Root Problem and Subnormal Aluthge Transforms of Recursively Generated Weighted Shifts
Curto, Raul E.
Azhar, Hamza El
Omari, Youssef
Zerouali, El Hassan
Functional Analysis
44A60, 47B37 (Primary) 30C15, 40A99 (Secondary)
For recursively generated shifts, we provide definitive answers to two outstanding problems in the theory of unilateral weighted shifts: the Subnormality Problem ({\bf SP}) (related to the Aluthge transform) and the Square Root Problem ({\bf SRP}) (which deals with Berger measures of subnormal shifts). We use the Mellin Transform and the theory of exponential polynomials to establish that ({\bf SP}) and ({\bf SRP}) are equivalent if and only if a natural functional equation holds for the canonically associated Mellin transform. For $p$--atomic measures with $p \le 6$, our main result provides a new and simple proof of the above-mentioned equivalence. Subsequently, we obtain an example of a $7$--atomic measure for which the equivalence fails. This provides a negative answer to a problem posed by G.R. Exner in 2009, and to a recent conjecture formulated by R.E. Curto et al in 2019.
title The Square Root Problem and Subnormal Aluthge Transforms of Recursively Generated Weighted Shifts
topic Functional Analysis
44A60, 47B37 (Primary) 30C15, 40A99 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13887