Analytic representations of backward shifts on weighted Bergman and Dirichlet spaces

Abstract

The backward shifts (the adjoints of multiplication by z) on weighted Bergman spaces of the unit disk are important in operator theory. For example, Agler [1] shows their restrictions to invariant subspaces of vector-valued weighted Bergman spaces are model operators for hypercontractions. We present analytic representations of backward shifts on weighted Bergman spaces and Dirichlet type spaces. Since these analytic representations are not space specific, it is interesting to study these operators on Hilbert spaces of holomorprhic functions on the unit disk. We initiate this study by developing several properties of these operators. In particular, we obtain simple proofs and extend the invariant subspace theorem of shift plus Volterra operator on the Hardy space by Čučković and Paudyal [17]. Furthermore, we describe invariant subspaces of shift plus Volterra operator on the Bergman space by relating them to the invariant subspaces of the Dirichlet shift. Analytic representations of the tuple of backward shifts on weighted Bergman spaces of the unit ball are also discussed.