In this paper, we introduce the spherical polar decomposition of the linear pencil of an ordered pair $\mathbf {T}=(T_{1},T_{2})$ and investigate nontrivial invariant subspaces between the generalized spherical Aluthge transform of the linear pencil of $\mathbf {T}$ and the linear pencil of the original pair $\mathbf {T}$ of bounded operators with dense ranges.

For an inner function u, we discuss the dual operator for the compressed shift $P_u S|_{{\mathcal {K}}_u}$, where ${\mathcal {K}}_u$ is the model space for u. We describe the unitary equivalence/similarity classes for these duals as well as their invariant subspaces.

We consider spectral radius algebras associated with C0 contractions. When the operator A is algebraic, we describe all invariant subspaces that are common for operators in its spectral radius algebra ℬA. When the operator A is not algebraic, ℬA is weakly dense and we characterize a set of rank-one operators in ℬA that is weakly dense in ℒ(ℋ).

It is proved that every infinite-dimensional non-archimedean Banach space of countable type admits a linear continuous operator without a non-trivial closed invariant subspace. This solves a problem stated by A. C. M. van Rooij and W. H. Schikhof in 1992.

Let $N$ be an integer which is larger than one. In this paper we study invariant subspaces of ${{L}^{2}}({{\mathbb{T}}^{N}})$ under the double commuting condition. A main result is an $N$-dimensional version of the theorem proved by Mandrekar and Nakazi. As an application of this result, we have an $N$-dimensional version of Lax's theorem.

Let $T$ be a contraction on a complex Hilbert space $H$. A result of Brown, Chevreau and Pearcy from 1979 shows that $T$ has a non-trivial invariant subspace if the spectrum of $T$ is dominating in the open unit disc. It is the purpose of the present paper to prove the multidimensional analogue of this result for spherical contractions $T \in L(H)^n$ that possess a spherical dilation and for which the Harte spectrum is dominating in the open unit ball $B$ in $\mathbb{C}^n$. If even the essential Harte spectrum of $T$ is dominating in $B$, then $T$ is shown to be reflexive and to possess an extremely rich invariant subspace lattice. The proof is based on the existence of an $H^{\infty}$-functional calculus for completely non-unitary spherical contractions and on a multidimensional analogue of the classical result of Sz.Nagy and Foias, stating that each spherical contraction which is neither of type $C_{\cdot 0}$ nor of type $C_{0 \cdot}$ and which does not consist of multiples of the identity operator on $H$, possesses non-trivial joint hyperinvariant subspaces.

1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 47A13, 47A15, 47A60

For a bounded region G ⊂ ℂ and a compact set K ⊂ G, with area measure zero, we will characterize the invariant subspaces ℳ (under ƒ → zƒ) of the Bergman space (G \ K), 1 ≤ p < ∞, which contain (G) and with dim(ℳ/(z - λ)ℳ) = 1 for all λ ∈ G \ K. When G \ K is connected, we will see that dim(ℳ/(z - λ)ℳ) = 1 for all λ ∈ G \ K and thus in this case we will have a complete description of the invariant subspaces lying between (G) and (G \ K). When p = ∞, we will remark on the structure of the weak-star closed z-invariant subspaces between H∞(G) and H∞(G \ K). When G \ K is not connected, we will show that in general the invariant subspaces between (G) and (G \ K) are fantastically complicated. As an application of these results, we will remark on the complexity of the invariant subspaces (under ƒ → ζƒ) of certain Besov spaces on K. In particular, we shall see that in the harmonic Dirichlet space , there are invariant subspaces ℱ such that the dimension of ζℱ in ℱ is infinite.

This note gives a Banach space extension of the Hilbert space result due to P. A. Fillmore (see [3]). In particular, it is shown that the adjoint T* = A — iB of an operator T = A + iB (with A and B hermitian) is a polynomial in T if and only if T* leaves invariant every linear subspace invariant under T, and this is equivalent to the assertion that T* leaves invariant every paraclosed subspace invariant under T.

Real matrix pairs (A,H) satisfying det H ≠ 0, HT = εH, and HA - ηATH, where ε, η take the values +1 or —1, are considered. It is shown that maximal A-invariant H-neutral subspaces have the same dimension (depending on ε and η), called the order of neutrality of the pair (A, H). The order of neutrality of definitizable pairs is investigated. In particular, this concept is used to obtain lower bounds for the number of pure imaginary eigenvalues of low rank perturbations of definitizable pairs when (ε,η) = (1, - 1 ) and when (ε,η) = (—1,—1).

Starting with the extension of Lomonosov's Lemma by Tychonoff fixed point theorem, a result of Daughtry and Kim — Pearcy-Shields on rank-one commutators is extended to the context of locally convex spaces. Non-zero diagonal coefficients, eigenvalues and simultaneous triangular representations of compact operators on locally convex spaces are studied.