Spectral decomposability of rank-one perturbations of normal operators

Abstract

This paper is a continuation of the study by Foias, Jung, Ko, and Pearcy (2007) [4] and Foias, Jung, Ko, and Pearcy (2008) [5] of rank-one perturbations of diagonalizable normal operators. In Foias, Jung, Ko, and Pearcy (2007) [4] we showed that there is a large class of such operators each of which has a nontrivial hyperinvariant subspace, and in Foias, Jung, Ko, and Pearcy (2008) [5] we proved that the commutant of each of these rank-one perturbations is abelian. In this paper we show that the operators considered in Foias, Jung, Ko, and Pearcy (2007) [4] have more structure - namely, that they are decomposable operators in the sense of Colojoarǎ and Foias (1968) [1]. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.