Operators commuting with the Volterra operator are not weakly supercyclic

Abstract

We prove that any bounded linear operator on $L_p[0,1]$ for $1\leq p<\infty$, commuting with the Volterra operator $V$, is not weakly supercyclic, which answers affirmatively a question raised by L\'eon-Saavedra and Piqueras-Lerena. It is achieved by providing an algebraic flavored condition on an operator which prevents it from being weakly supercyclic and is satisfied for any operator commuting with $V$.