In this paper the hyponormal operators on Krein spaces are introduced. We state conditions for the hyponormality of bounded operators focusing, in particular, on those operators $T$ for which there exists a fundamental decomposition $𝕂={𝕂}^{+}\oplus {𝕂}^{-}$ of the Krein space $𝕂$ with ${𝕂}^{+}$ and ${𝕂}^{-}$ invariant under $T$.

The purpose of the paper is to introduce and study a new class of operators on semi-Hilbertian spaces, i.e. spaces generated by positive semi-definite sesquilinear forms. Let $\mathscr{H}$ be a Hilbert space and let $A$ be a positive bounded operator on $\mathscr{H}$. The semi-inner product ${\langle h\mid k\rangle }_A:=\langle Ah\mid k\rangle$, $h,k\in \mathscr{H}$, induces a semi-norm ${\parallel ·\parallel }_A$. This makes $\mathscr{H}$ into a semi-Hilbertian space. An operator $T\in {ℬ}_A\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ is said to be $(n,m)$-$A$-normal if $[T^n,{\left(T^{{♯}_A}\right)}^m]:=T^n{\left(T^{{♯}_A}\right)}^m-{\left(T^{{♯}_A}\right)}^m{T}^n=0$ for some positive integers $n$ and $m$.

The present paper consists of two parts. In Section 1 we consider fractional-linear transformations (f.-l.t. for brevity) F in the space $ℒ(X_1,X_2)$ of all linear bounded operators acting from $X_1$ into $X_2$, where $X_1,X_2$ are Banach spaces. We show that in the case of Hilbert spaces $X_1,X_2$ the image F(ℬ) of any (open or closed) ball ℬ ⊂ D(F) is convex, and if ℬ is closed, then F(ℬ) is compact in the weak operator topology (w.o.t.) (Theorem 1.2). These results extend the corresponding results on compactness obtained in [3],...