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topic Mathematics
hypercyclicity
orbital limit points
zero-one law
weighted shifts
adjoints of multiplication operators
composition operators
spellingShingle Mathematics
hypercyclicity
orbital limit points
zero-one law
weighted shifts
adjoints of multiplication operators
composition operators
Seceleanu, Irina
Hypercyclic Operators and their Orbital Limit Points
author Seceleanu, Irina
author_facet Seceleanu, Irina
author_sort Seceleanu, Irina
title Hypercyclic Operators and their Orbital Limit Points
title_short Hypercyclic Operators and their Orbital Limit Points
title_full Hypercyclic Operators and their Orbital Limit Points
title_fullStr Hypercyclic Operators and their Orbital Limit Points
title_full_unstemmed Hypercyclic Operators and their Orbital Limit Points
title_sort hypercyclic operators and their orbital limit points
publisher Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK
publishDate 2010
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu12809344332021-08-03T05:29:32Z Hypercyclic Operators and their Orbital Limit Points Seceleanu, Irina Mathematics hypercyclicity orbital limit points zero-one law weighted shifts adjoints of multiplication operators composition operators <p>Hypercyclicity is the study of linear and continuous operators that possess a dense orbit. Given a separable, infinite dimensional topological vector space X, we say a continuous linear operator T is hypercyclic if there exists a vector x in X such that its orbit Orb(T,x)={x, Tx, T²x, …} is dense in X.</p><p>Many interesting phenomena appear when analyzing the behavior of iterates of linear and continuous operators, in particular we emphasize the existence of several zero-one laws. We first note that, if an operator T has a hypercyclic vector, it has a dense G<sub>δ</sub> set of such vectors, and hence the set of hypercyclic vectors for an operator is either empty or very large in a topological sense. Next, by proving that a somewhere dense orbit is everywhere dense, P. S. Bourdon and N. S. Feldman showed a second zero-one law which states that either an orbit Orb(T,x) is nowhere dense or it is dense in the whole space.</p><p>In my dissertation we uncovered the existence of another such zero-one law for certain classes of operators. We showed that for a weighted backward shift on ℓ<sup>p</sup> to be hypercyclic it suffices to require the operator to have an orbit Orb(T,x) with a single non-zero limit point, thus relaxing Bourdon and Feldman’s condition of having a dense orbit in some open subset of X. However, our condition does not guarantee that the original orbit Orb(T,x) is dense in X, nonetheless we can demonstrate how to construct a hypercyclic vector for T by using the non-zero limit point of the orbit. Even more interestingly, the condition above can be relaxed to simply requiring that the orbit has infinitely many members in a ball whose closure avoids the zero vector.</p><p>To summarize this behavior of weighted backward shifts, we emphasize that a shift T is not hypercyclic if and only if every set of the form Orb(T,x)∪{0} is closed in ℓ<sup>p</sup> . Thus we showed the existence of a zero-one law for the hypercyclicity of these shifts, which states that either no orbit has a non-zero limit point in ℓ<sup>p</sup>; or some orbit has every vector in ℓ<sup>p</sup> as a limit point.</p><p>Furthermore we showed that this zero-one law for the hypercyclic behavior of shifts is also shared by other classes of operators, in particular the adjoints of the multiplication operators on the Bergman space A<sup>2</sup>(Ω) for an arbitrary region Ω. To achieve this we cannot borrow techniques used for the shift operators, but instead we have to take a function theoretical approach.</p><p>However, we also showed that this behavior does not generalize to all classes of operators, namely we provided an example of a linear fractional composition operator on the Hardy space <i>H</i><sup>2</sup>(픻) that is not hypercyclic, and yet it has an orbit with a non-constant limit point.</p><p>To summarize the importance of our results, we would like to point out that in our endeavor to study the phenomena of hypercyclicity it is important to understand how an operator fails to be hypercyclic. Having proved that for certain classes of operators, a non-hypercyclic operator can at most have the zero vector as an orbital limit point, we have shown that these operators fail at having a dense orbit in quite a dramatic way. Thus we described the hypercyclic behavior of certain operators as a zero-one law of orbital limit points, and so we have uncovered another facet of hypercyclicity associated with dichotomous behavior.</p> 2010-08-14 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1280934433 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1280934433 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.