On the non-hypercyclicity of scalar type spectral operators and collections of their exponentials

Abstract

Abstract Generalizing the case of a normal operator in a complex Hilbert space, we give a straightforward proof of the non-hypercyclicity of a scalar type spectral operator A in a complex Banach space as well as of the collection { e t A } t ≥ 0 {\{{e}^{tA}\}}_{t\ge 0} of its exponentials, which, under a certain condition on the spectrum of the operator A, coincides with the C 0 {C}_{0} -semigroup generated by A. The spectrum of A lying on the imaginary axis, we also show that non-hypercyclic is the strongly continuous group { e t A } t ∈ ℝ {\{{e}^{tA}\}}_{t\in {\mathbb{R}}} of bounded linear operators generated by A. From the general results, we infer that, in the complex Hilbert space L 2 ( ℝ ) {L}_{2}({\mathbb{R}}) , the anti-self-adjoint differentiation operator A ≔ d d x A:= \tfrac{\text{d}}{\text{d}x} with the domain D ( A ) ≔ W 2 1 ( ℝ ) D(A):= {W}_{2}^{1}({\mathbb{R}}) is non-hypercyclic and so is the left-translation strongly continuous unitary operator group generated by A.