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Shailesh Trivedi

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arXiv2026

Circular operators and their strong circularity

Circular operators have been studied extensively since the work of R. Gellar, who conjectured that every circular operator on a complex separable Hilbert space is strongly circular. In this short note, we show that circularity and strong circularity coincide for bounded operators that are finite or countably infinite direct sums of irreducible operators. This considerably narrows the search for potential counterexamples to Gellar's conjecture. As an application, we prove that every circular operator in the Cowen-Douglas class is strongly circular. In addition, we obtain several general results on circular operators that reveal the significance of the hyper-range and the Cauchy dual.

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arXiv2025

Weakly $\mathcal U(d)$-homogeneous commuting tuple of bounded operators

We introduce and study the weakly $\mathcal U(d)$-homogeneous commuting tuple of operators. We provide a sufficient condition under which a weakly $\mathcal U(d)$-homogeneous tuple is similar to a $\mathcal U(d)$-homogeneous tuple. Further, we focus our attention to multishifts and completely characterize weakly $\mathcal U(d)$-homogeneous multishifts. In particular, we show that a multishift is weakly $\mathcal U(d)$-homogeneous if and only if it similar to a $\mathcal U(d)$-homogeneous multishift. The results for multishifts are further refined for the class of spherically balanced multishifts.

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arXiv2025

Unitary equivalence of balanced weighted shifts on rooted directed trees

We completely characterize non-periodic balanced weighted shifts $S_{\lambdab}$ on rooted directed trees under a very mild assumption that $S_{\lambdab}^{*n}S_{\lambdab}^n|_{\ker S_{\lambdab}^*}$ is invertible operator on $\ker S_{\lambdab}^*$ for all $n \in \mathbb N$. This generalizes the previously established unitary equivalences for Bergman and Dirichlet type shifts associated with locally finite rooted directed trees. We also give a counter example to justify that the criteria obtained for non-periodic balanced weighted shifts is not necessary for eventually periodic balanced weighted shifts.

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arXiv2025

Wold-type decomposition for left-invertible weighted shifts on a rootless directed tree

Let $S_{\lambdab}$ be a bounded left-invertible weighted shift on a rootless directed tree $\mathcal T=(V, \mathcal E).$ We address the question of when $S_{\lambdab}$ has Wold-type decomposition. We relate this problem to the convergence of the series $\displaystyle {\tiny \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty} \sum_{u \in G_{v, n}\backslash G_{v, n-1}} \Big(\frac{\lambdab^{(n)}(u)}{\lambdab^{(n)}(v)}\Big)^2},$ $v \in V,$ involving the moments $\lambdab^{(n)}$ of $S^*_{\lambdab}$, where $G_{v, n}=\childn{n}{\parentn{n}{v}}.$ The main result of this paper characterizes all bounded left-invertible weighted shifts $S_{\lambdab}$ on $\mathcal T,$ which have Wold-type decomposition.

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arXiv2024

A short note on similarity of operator-valued multishifts

A complete characterization of the similarity between two operator-valued multishifts with invertible operator weights is obtained purely in terms of operator weights. This generalizes several existing results of the unitary equivalence of two (multi)shifts. Further, we utilize the aforementioned similarity criteria to determine the similarity between two tuples of operators of multiplication by the coordinate functions on certain reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces determined by diagonal kernels.

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arXiv2021

Bounded point evaluation for operators with the wandering subspace property

We extend and study the notion of bounded point evaluation introduced by Williams for a cyclic operator to the class of operators with the wandering subspace property. We characterize the set $bpe(T)$ of all bounded point evaluations for an operator $T$ with the wandering subspace property in terms of the invertibility of certain projections. This result generalizes the earlier established characterization of $bpe(T)$ for a finitely cyclic operator $T$. Further, if $T$ is a left-invertible operator with the wandering subspace property, then we determine the $bpe(T)$ and the set $abpe(T)$ of all analytic bounded point evaluations for $T$. We also give examples of left-invertible operator $T$ with the wandering subspace property for which $\mathbb D\big(0, r(T')^{-1}\big) \subsetneqq abpe(T) \subseteq bpe(T)$, where $r(T')$ is the spectral radius of the Cauchy dual $T'$ of $T$.

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arXiv2019

Analytic $m$-isometries without the wandering subspace property

The wandering subspace problem for an analytic norm-increasing $m$-isometry $T$ on a Hilbert space $\mathcal H$ asks whether every $T$-invariant subspace of $\mathcal H$ can be generated by a wandering subspace. An affirmative solution to this problem for $m=1$ is ascribed to Beurling-Lax-Halmos, while that for $m=2$ is due to Richter. In this paper, we capitalize on the idea of weighted shift on one-circuit directed graph to construct a family of analytic cyclic $3$-isometries, which do not admit the wandering subspace property and which are norm-increasing on the orthogonal complement of a one-dimensional space. Further, on this one dimensional space, their norms can be made arbitrarily close to $1$. We also show that if the wandering subspace property fails for an analytic norm-increasing $m$-isometry, then it fails miserably in the sense that the smallest $T$-invariant subspace generated by the wandering subspace is of infinite codimension.

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arXiv2019

Unitary equivalence of operator-valued multishifts

We systematically study various aspects of operator-valued multishifts. Beginning with basic properties, we show that the class of multishifts on the directed Cartesian product of rooted directed trees is contained in that of operator-valued multishifts. Further, we establish circularity, analyticity and wandering subspace property of these multishifts. In the rest part of the paper, we study the function theoretic behaviour of operator-valued multishifts. We determine the bounded point evaluation, reproducing kernel structure and the unitary equivalence of operator-valued multishifts with invertible operator weights. In contrast with a result of Lubin, it appears that the set of all bounded point evaluations of an operator-valued multishift may be properly contained in the joint point spectrum of the adjoint of underlying multishift.

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arXiv2018

Von Neumann's inequality for commuting operator-valued multishifts

Recently, Hartz proved that every commuting contractive classical multishift with non-zero weights satisfies the matrix-version of von Neumann's inequality. We show that this result does not extend to the class of commuting operator-valued multishifts with invertible operator weights. In particular, we show that if $A$ and $B$ are commuting contractive $d$-tuples of operators such that $B$ satisfies the matrix-version of von Neumann's inequality and $(1, \ldots, 1)$ is in the algebraic spectrum of $B$, then the tensor product $A \otimes B$ satisfies the von Neumann's inequality if and only if $A$ satisfies the von Neumann's inequality. We also exhibit several families of operator-valued multishifts for which the von Neumann's inequality always holds.

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arXiv2018

Commutants and Reflexivity of Multiplication tuples on Vector-valued Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

Motivated by the theory of weighted shifts on directed trees and its multivariable counterpart, we address the question of identifying commutant and reflexivity of the multiplication $d$-tuple $\mathscr M_z$ on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathscr H$ of $E$-valued holomorphic functions on $Ω$, where $E$ is a separable Hilbert space and $Ω$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb C^d$ admitting bounded approximation by polynomials. In case $E$ is a finite dimensional cyclic subspace for $\mathscr M_z$, under some natural conditions on the $B(E)$-valued kernel associated with $\mathscr H$, the commutant of $\mathscr M_z$ is shown to be the algebra $H^{\infty}_{_{B(E)}}(Ω)$ of bounded holomorphic $B(E)$-valued functions on $Ω$, provided $\mathscr M_z$ satisfies the matrix-valued von Neumann's inequality. This generalizes a classical result of Shields and Wallen (the case of $\dim E=1$ and $d=1$). As an application, we determine the commutant of a Bergman shift on a leafless, locally finite, rooted directed tree $\mathscr T$ of finite branching index. As the second main result of this paper, we show that a multiplication $d$-tuple $\mathscr M_z$ on $\mathscr H$ satisfying the von Neumann's inequality is reflexive. This provides several new classes of examples as well as recovers special cases of various known results in one and several variables. We also exhibit a family of tri-diagonal $B(\mathbb C^2)$-valued kernels for which the associated multiplication operators $\mathscr M_z$ are non-hyponormal reflexive operators with commutants equal to $H^{\infty}_{_{B(\mathbb C^2)}}(\mathbb D)$.

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arXiv2017

Classification of Drury-Arveson-type Hilbert modules associated with certain directed graphs

Given a directed Cartesian product $\mathscr T$ of locally finite, leafless, rooted directed trees $\mathscr T_1, \ldots, \mathscr T_d$ of finite joint branching index, one may associate with $\mathscr T$ the Drury-Arveson-type $\mathbb C[z_1, \ldots, z_d]$-Hilbert module $\mathscr H_{\mathfrak c_a}(\mathscr T)$ of vector-valued holomorphic functions on the open unit ball $\mathbb B^d$ in $\mathbb C^d$, where $a >0.$ In case all directed trees under consideration are without branching vertices, $\mathscr H_{\mathfrak c_a}(\mathscr T)$ turns out to be the classical Drury-Arveson-type Hilbert module $\mathscr H_{a}$ associated with the reproducing kernel $\frac{1}{(1 - \langle{z}, {w}\rangle)^a}$ defined on $\mathbb B^d$. Unlike the case of $d=1$, the above association does not yield a reproducing kernel Hilbert module if we relax the assumption that $\mathscr T$ has finite joint branching index. The main result of this paper classifies all directed Cartesian product $\mathscr T$ for which the Hilbert modules $\mathscr H_{\mathfrak c_a}(\mathscr T)$ are isomorphic in case $a$ is a positive integer. One of the essential tools used to establish this isomorphism is an operator-valued representing measure arising from $\mathscr H_{\mathfrak c_a}(\mathscr T).$ Further, a careful analysis of these Hilbert modules allows us to prove that the cardinality of the $k^{\tiny \mbox{th}}$ generation $(k =0, 1, \ldots)$ of $\mathscr T_1, \ldots, \mathscr T_d$ are complete invariants for $\mathscr H_{\mathfrak c_a}(\cdot)$ provided $ad \neq 1$. Failure of this result in case $ad =1$ may be attributed to the von Neumann-Wold decomposition for isometries. Along the way, we identify the joint cokernel $E$ of the multiplication $d$-tuple $\mathscr M_{z}$ on $\mathscr H_{\mathfrak c_a}(\mathscr T)$ with orthogonal direct sum of tensor products of certain hyperplanes.

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arXiv2017

Dirichlet Spaces Associated With Locally Finite Rooted Directed Trees

Let $\mathscr T=(V, \mathcal E)$ be a leafless, locally finite rooted directed tree. We associate with $\mathscr T$ a one parameter family of Dirichlet spaces $\mathscr H_q~(q \geqslant 1)$, which turn out to be Hilbert spaces of vector-valued holomorphic functions defined on the unit disc $\mathbb D$ in the complex plane. These spaces can be realized as reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces associated with the positive definite kernel \begin{eqnarray*} κ_{\mathscr H_q}(z, w) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{(1)_n}{(q)_n}\,{z^n \overline{w}^n} ~P_{\langle e_{\mathsf{root}}\rangle} + \sum_{v \in V_{\prec}} \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{(n_v +2)_n}{(n_v + q+1)_n}\, {z^n \overline{w}^n}~P_{v}~(z, w \in \mathbb D), \end{eqnarray*} where $V_{\prec}$ denotes the set of branching vertices of $\mathscr T$, $n_v$ denotes the depth of $v \in V$ in $\mathscr T,$ and $P_{\langle e_{\mathsf{root}}\rangle}$, $~P_{v}~(v \in V_{\prec})$ are certain orthogonal projections. We also discuss some structural properties of the operator $\mathscr M_{z, q}$ of multiplication by $z$ on $\mathscr H_q.$ Further, we discuss the question of unitary equivalence of operators $\mathscr M^{(1)}_z$ and $\mathscr M^{(2)}_z$ of multiplication by $z$ on Dirichlet spaces $\mathscr H_q$ associated with directed trees $\mathscr T_1$ and $\mathscr T_2$ respectively.

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arXiv2016

Multishifts on Directed Cartesian Product of Rooted Directed Trees

We systematically develop the multivariable counterpart of the theory of weighted shifts on rooted directed trees. Capitalizing on the theory of product of directed graphs, we introduce and study the notion of multishifts on directed Cartesian product of rooted directed trees. This framework unifies the theory of weighted shifts on rooted directed trees and that of classical unilateral multishifts. Moreover, this setup brings into picture some new phenomena such as the appearance of system of linear equations in the eigenvalue problem for the adjoint of a multishift. In the first half of the paper, we focus our attention mostly on the multivariable spectral theory and function theory including finer analysis of various joint spectra and wandering subspace property for multishifts. In the second half, we separate out two special classes of multishifts, which we refer to as torally balanced and spherically balanced multishifts. The classification of these two classes is closely related to toral and spherical polar decompositions of multishifts. Furthermore, we exhibit a family of spherically balanced multishifts on $d$-fold directed Cartesian product $\mathscr T$ of rooted directed trees. These multishifts turn out be multiplication $d$-tuples $\mathscr M_{z, a}$ on certain reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces $\mathscr H_a$ of vector-valued holomorphic functions defined on the unit ball $\mathbb B^d$ in $\mathbb C^d$, which can be thought of as tree analogs of the multiplication $d$-tuples acting on the reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces associated with the kernels $\frac{1}{(1-\langle{z},{{w}\rangle})^a}~(z, w \in \mathbb B^d, a \in \mathbb N).$

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arXiv2015

An Analytic Model for Left-Invertible Weighted Shifts on Directed Trees

Let $\mathscr T$ be a rooted directed tree with finite branching index $k_{\mathscr T}$ and let $S_λ \in B(l^2(V))$ be a left-invertible weighted shift on ${\mathscr T}$. We show that $S_λ$ can be modelled as a multiplication operator $\mathscr M_z$ on a reproducing kernel Hilbert space $\mathscr H$ of $E$-valued holomorphic functions on a disc centered at the origin, where $E:=\ker S^*_λ$. The reproducing kernel associated with $\mathscr H$ is multi-diagonal and of bandwidth $k_{\mathscr T}.$ Moreover, $\mathscr H$ admits an orthonormal basis consisting of polynomials in $z$ with at most $k_{\mathscr T}+1$ non-zero coefficients. As one of the applications of this model, we give a complete spectral picture of $S_λ.$ Unlike the case $\dim E = 1,$ the approximate point spectrum of $S_λ$ could be disconnected. We also obtain an analytic model for left-invertible weighted shifts on rootless directed trees with finite branching index.

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