Boundedly Spaced Subsequences and Weak Dynamics

Weak supercyclicity is related to weak stability, which leads to the question that asks whether every weakly supercyclic power bounded operator is weakly stable. This is approached here by investigating weak l-sequential supercyclicity for Hilbert-space contractions through Nagy–Foliaş–Langer decomposition, thus reducing the problem to the quest of conditions for a weakly l-sequentially supercyclic unitary operator to be weakly stable, and this is done in light of boundedly spaced subsequences.

Mean ergodic operators and reflexive Fréchet lattices

Connections between (positive) mean ergodic operators acting in Banach lattices and properties of the underlying lattice itself are well understood (see the works of Emel'yanov, Wolff and Zaharopol). For Fréchet lattices (or more general locally convex solid Riesz spaces) there is virtually no information available. For a Fréchet lattice E, it is shown here that (amongst other things) every power-bounded linear operator on E is mean ergodic if and only if E is reflexive if and only if E is Dedekind σ-complete and every positive power-bounded operator on E is mean ergodic if and only if every positive power-bounded operator in the strong dual E′β (no longer a Fréchet lattice) is mean ergodic. An important technique is to develop criteria that detect when E admits a (positively) complemented lattice copy of c0, l1 or l∞.

On power-bounded prespectral operators

Foguel (8) and Fixman (7) independently proved that an invertible spectral operator, which is power-bounded, is of scalar type. Their proofs rely heavily on a result of Dunford on spectral operators whose resolvents satisfy a growth condition. (See Lemma 3.16 of (6, p. 609).) Observe that the resolvent of an invertible power-bounded operator T satisfies an inequality of the form