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Similarity, Quasimilarity and Operator Factorizations
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Similarity, Quasimilarity and Operator Factorizations

Raul E Curto and Lawrence A Fialkow
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol.314(1), pp.225-254
07/1989
DOI: 10.2307/2001443

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Abstract

We introduce and illustrate an operator factorization technique to study similarity and quasisimilarity of Hilbert space operators. The technique allows one to generate, in a systematic way, families of "test" operators, and to check for similarity and quasisimilarity with a given model. In the case of the unilateral shift U+, we obtain a one-parameter family of nonhyponormal, noncontractive, shift-like operators in the similarity orbit of U+. We also obtain new characterizations of quasisimilarity and similarity in terms of invariant operator ranges, and conditions for spectral and essential spectral inclusions.

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