The Taylor joint spectrum and restriction to hyperinvariant subspaces

Abstract

It is well known that for a single bounded operator $A_0$ on a Hilbert $\mathfrak{H}$, if $\mathfrak{M}\subset \mathfrak{H}$ is hyperinvariant for $A_0$, then the spectrum of $A_0{|}_{\mathfrak{M}}$ is contained in the spectrum of $A_0$. In this note, we modify an example of Taylor to prove the following. There exist a quadruple $A=(A_1,A_2,A_3,A_4)$ of commuting bounded Hilbert space operators and a hyperinvariant subspace ${\mathfrak{X}}_1$ for $A$ such that the Taylor joint spectrum of $A$ restricted to ${\mathfrak{X}}_1$ is a not a subset of the Taylor joint spectrum of $A$.

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