Commutants and hyper-reflexivity of multiplication operators

We characterize the commutants of some multiplication operators on a Banach space of analytic functions defined on a bounded domain in the plane. Under certain conditions on the symbol of a multiplication operator, we show that its commutant is a set of multiplication operators. This partially answers a question of Axler, Cuckovic and Rao. Next, the hyper-reflexivity of these multiplication operators are proved. The paper is concluded by proving the hyper-reflexivity of the multiplication operators with symbols j (z) = zk, k=1, 2,... .

Commutants and hyper-reflexivity of multiplication operators

We characterize the commutants of some multiplication operators on a Banach space of analytic functions defined on a bounded domain in the plane. Under certain conditions on the symbol of a multiplication operator, we show that its commutant is a set of multiplication operators. This partially answers a question of Axler, Cuckovic and Rao. Next, the hyper-reflexivity of these multiplication operators are proved. The paper is concluded by proving the hyper-reflexivity of the multiplication operators with symbols j (z) = zk, k=1, 2,... .

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