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We focus on two problems relating to the question of when the product of two posinormal operators is posinormal, giving (1) necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for posinormal operators to have closed range, and (2) sufficient conditions for the product of commuting closed-range posinormal operators to be posinormal with closed range. We also discuss the relationship between posinormal operators and EP operators (as well as hypo-EP operators), concluding with a new proof of the Hartwig-Katz Theorem, which characterizes when the product of posinormal operators on $\mathbb{C}^n$ is posinormal.

We find sufficient conditions for a self-map of the unit ball to converge uniformly under iteration to a fixed point or idempotent on the entire ball. Using these tools, we establish spectral containments for weighted composition operators on Hardy and Bergman spaces of the ball. When the compositional symbol is in the Schur-Agler class, we establish the spectral radii of these weighted composition operators.

Given a weighted shift $T$ of multiplicity two, we study the set $\sqrt{T}$ of all square roots of $T$. We determine necessary and sufficient conditions on the weight sequence so that this set is non-empty. We show that when such conditions are satisfied, $\sqrt{T}$ contains a certain special class of operators. We also obtain a complete description of all operators in $\sqrt{T}$.

In this paper we generalize the classical theorems of Brown and Halmos about algebraic properties of Toeplitz operators to the Bergman spaces over the unit ball in several complex variables. A key result, which is of independent interest, is the characterization of summable functions $u$ on the unit ball whose Berezin transform $B(u)$ can be written as a finite sum $\sum_{j}f_j\,\bar{g}_j$ with all $f_j, g_j$ being holomorphic. In particular, we show that such a function must be pluriharmonic if it is sufficiently smooth and bounded. We also settle an open question about $\mathcal{M}$-harmonic functions. Our proofs employ techniques and results from function and operator theory as well as partial differential equations.

We give a generalization of the notion of finite Blaschke products from the perspective of generalized inner functions in various reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Further, we study precisely how these functions relate to the so-called Shapiro--Shields functions andshift-invariant subspaces generated by polynomials. Applying our results, we show that the only entire inner functions on weighted Hardy spaces over the unit disk are multiples of monomials, extending recent work of Cobos and Seco.

In this paper we investigate when a finite sum of products of two Toeplitz operators with quasihomogeneous symbols is a finite rank perturbation of another Toeplitz operator on the Bergman space. We discover a noncommutative convolution $\diamond$ on the space of quasihomogeneous functions and use it in solving the problem. Our main results show that if $F_j, G_j$ ($1\leq j\leq N$) are polynomials of $z$ and $\bar{z}$ then $\sum_{j=1}^{N}T_{F_j}T_{G_j}-T_{H}$ is a finite rank operator for some $L^{1}$-function $H$ if and only if $\sum_{j=1}^{N}F_j\diamond G_j$ belongs to $L^1$ and $H=\sum_{j=1}^{N}F_j\diamond G_j$. In the case $F_j$'s are holomorphic and $G_j$'s are conjugate holomorphic, it is shown that $H$ is a solution to a system of first order partial differential equations with a constraint.

We consider operators acting on a Hilbert space that can be written as the sum of a shift and a diagonal operator and determine when the operator is hyponormal. The condition is presented in terms of the norm of an explicit block Jacobi matrix. We apply this result to the Toeplitz operator with specific algebraic symbols acting on certain weighted Bergman spaces of the unit disk and determine when such operators are hyponormal.