Hyperexpansive weighted translation semigroups
Volume 159 / 2020
Abstract
Weighted shift operators turn out to be extremely useful in supplying interesting examples of operators on Hilbert spaces. With a view to studying continuous analogues of weighted shifts, M. Embry and A. Lambert initiated the study of operator semigroups indexed by non-negative real numbers and termed weighted translation semigroups, where the operators S_t are defined on L^2(\mathbb R_+) by using a weight function. We obtain characterizations of hyperexpansive weighted translation semigroups in terms of their symbols. We also discuss the Cauchy dual of a hyperexpansive weighted translation semigroup. As an application, we present new proofs of a couple of known results.