Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 17 (2010)

Number 1

Invariant subspaces of parabolic self-maps in the Hardy space

Pages: 99 – 107

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2010.v17.n1.a8

Authors

Alfonso Montes-Rodríguez (Universidad de Sevilla)

Manuel Ponce-Escudero (Universidad de Sevilla)

Stanislav A. Shkarin (King’s College London)

Abstract

We provide a precise description of the lattice of invariant subspaces of composition operators acting on the classical Hardy space, whose inducing symbol is a parabolic non-automorphism. This is achieved with an explicit isomorphism between the Hardy space and the Sobolev Banach algebra $W^{1,2}[0,\infty)$ that induces a bijection between the lattice of the composition operator and the closed ideals of $W^{1,2}[0,\infty)$. In particular, each invariant subspace of parabolic non-automorphism composition operator always consists of the closed span of a set of eigenfunctions. As a consequence, such composition operators have no non-trivial reducing subspaces. For the sake of completeness, we also include a characterization of the closed ideals of the Banach algebra $W^{1,2}[0,\infty)$. Although such a characterization is known, the proof we provide here is somehow different.

Published 1 January 2010