Supercyclic vectors of operators on normed linear spaces

Abstract

We give an affirmative answer to a question asked by Faghih-Ahmadi and Hedayatian regarding supercyclic vectors. We show that if $\mathcal X$ is an infinite-dimensional normed linear space and $T$ is a supercyclic operator on $\mathcal X$, then for any supercyclic vector $x$ for $T$, there exists a strictly increasing sequence $(n_k)_k$ of positive integers such that the closed linear span of the set $\{T^{n_k}x: k\ge 1\}$ is not the whole $\mathcal X$.