Half-centered Operators

Abstract

An operator $T$ on a Hilbert space is called half-centered if the sequence $T^{*}T,(T^{*})^{2}T^{2},...$ consists of mutually commuting operators. It is a subclass of the well-studied centered operators. In this paper we give a condition for when a half-centered operator is centered and prove a structure theorem for those half-centered operators that satisfies a criteria of a technical nature.