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Hyponormality and subnormality for powers of commuting pairs of subnormal operators
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Hyponormality and subnormality for powers of commuting pairs of subnormal operators

Raúl E Curto, Sang Hoon Lee and Jasang Yoon
Journal of functional analysis, Vol.245(2), pp.390-412
2007
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2007.01.002
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Abstract

Let H 0 (respectively H ∞ ) denote the class of commuting pairs of subnormal operators on Hilbert space (respectively subnormal pairs), and for an integer k ⩾ 1 let H k denote the class of k-hyponormal pairs in H 0 . We study the hyponormality and subnormality of powers of pairs in H k . We first show that if ( T 1 , T 2 ) ∈ H 1 , the pair ( T 1 2 , T 2 ) may fail to be in H 1 . Conversely, we find a pair ( T 1 , T 2 ) ∈ H 0 such that ( T 1 2 , T 2 ) ∈ H 1 but ( T 1 , T 2 ) ∉ H 1 . Next, we show that there exists a pair ( T 1 , T 2 ) ∈ H 1 such that T 1 m T 2 n is subnormal (for all m , n ⩾ 1 ), but ( T 1 , T 2 ) is not in H ∞ ; this further stretches the gap between the classes H 1 and H ∞ . Finally, we prove that there exists a large class of 2-variable weighted shifts ( T 1 , T 2 ) (namely those pairs in H 0 whose cores are of tensor form (cf. Definition 3.4)), for which the subnormality of ( T 1 2 , T 2 ) and ( T 1 , T 2 2 ) does imply the subnormality of ( T 1 , T 2 ) .
Jointly hyponormal pairs Powers of commuting pairs of subnormal operators Subnormal pairs 2-variable weighted shifts

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