Foguel-type operators similar to contractions

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Main Authors: Das, Nilanjan, Das, Soma, Sarkar, Jaydeb
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author Das, Nilanjan
Das, Soma
Sarkar, Jaydeb
author_facet Das, Nilanjan
Das, Soma
Sarkar, Jaydeb
contents Pisier's celebrated counterexample to Halmos's similarity-to-contractions problem was based on $2 \times 2$ upper triangular block operator matrices involving three classical operators: forward and backward shifts on the diagonal and Hankel operators in the off-diagonal entry. Together with another classical object, namely Toeplitz operators, one can formulate another $2^3 -1 = 7$ types of $2 \times 2$ upper triangular block operator matrices, which we refer to as Foguel-type operators. In this paper, we give a complete characterization of all the seven Foguel-type operators being similar to contractions.
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spellingShingle Foguel-type operators similar to contractions
Das, Nilanjan
Das, Soma
Sarkar, Jaydeb
Functional Analysis
Complex Variables
Operator Algebras
47B35, 32A37, 15B05, 47B38, 46E40, 30H10, 30H35
Pisier's celebrated counterexample to Halmos's similarity-to-contractions problem was based on $2 \times 2$ upper triangular block operator matrices involving three classical operators: forward and backward shifts on the diagonal and Hankel operators in the off-diagonal entry. Together with another classical object, namely Toeplitz operators, one can formulate another $2^3 -1 = 7$ types of $2 \times 2$ upper triangular block operator matrices, which we refer to as Foguel-type operators. In this paper, we give a complete characterization of all the seven Foguel-type operators being similar to contractions.
title Foguel-type operators similar to contractions
topic Functional Analysis
Complex Variables
Operator Algebras
47B35, 32A37, 15B05, 47B38, 46E40, 30H10, 30H35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00319