Joint backward extension property for weighted shifts on directed trees

Abstract

Weighted shifts on directed trees are a decade-old generalisation of classical shift operators in the sequence space ℓ2. In this paper we introduce the joint backward extension property (JBEP) for classes of weighted shifts on directed trees. If a class satisfies JBEP, the existence of a common backward extension within the class for a family of weighted shifts on rooted directed trees does not depend on the additional structure of the big tree (of fixed depth). We decide whether several classes of operators have JBEP. For subnormal or power hyponormal weighted shifts the property is satisfied, while it fails for completely hyperexpansive or quasinormal. Nevertheless, some positive results on joint backward extensions of completely hyperexpansive weighted shifts are proven.