N Congruency of Operators
The properties of the bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space which satisfy the condition where is unitary, are studied in relation to those of normal, hyponormal, quasinormal and subnormal operators.
We show that there are linear operators on Hilbert space that have n-dimensional subspaces with dense orbit, but no (n-1)-dimensional subspaces with dense orbit. This leads to a new class of operators, called the n-supercyclic operators. We show that many cohyponormal operators are n-supercyclic. Furthermore, we prove that for an n-supercyclic operator, there are n circles centered at the origin such that every component of the spectrum must intersect one of these circles.