We provide a survey of properties of the Cesàro operator on Hardy and weighted Bergman spaces, along with its connections to semigroups of weighted composition operators. We also describe recent developments regarding Cesàro-like operators and indicate some open questions and directions of future research.

Let $T\in ℒ\left(X\right)$ be a bounded operator on a complex Banach space $X$. If $V$ is an open subset of the complex plane such that $\lambda -T$ is of Kato-type for each $\lambda \in V$, then the induced mapping $f\left(z\right)\mapsto (z-T)f\left(z\right)$ has closed range in the Fréchet space of analytic $X$-valued functions on $V$. Since semi-Fredholm operators are of Kato-type, this generalizes a result of Eschmeier on Fredholm operators and leads to a sharper estimate of Nagy’s spectral residuum of $T$. Our proof is elementary; in particular, we avoid the sheaf model of Eschmeier and...

We study the infinitesimal generator of the Lax-Phillips semigroup of the automorphic scattering system defined on the Poincaré upper half-plane for SL₂(ℤ). We show that its spectrum consists only of the poles of the resolvent of the generator, and coincides with the poles of the scattering matrix, counted with multiplicities. Using this we construct an operator whose eigenvalues, counted with algebraic multiplicities (i.e. dimensions of generalized eigenspaces), are precisely the non-trivial zeros...

It is shown that the sum and the product of two commuting Banach space operators with Dunford’s property $\left(C\right)$ have the single-valued extension property.