Common Hypercyclic Vectors and the Hypercyclicity Criterion

Abstract.

An operator on a separable, infinite dimensional Banach space satisfies the Hypercyclicity Criterion if and only if the associated left multiplication operator is hypercyclic; see [14], [16], [29]. By examining paths of operators where each operator along the path satisfies the criterion, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a path of left multiplication operators to have an SOT-dense set of common hypercyclic vectors. As a corollary, we establish a natural sufficient condition for a path of operators to have a common hypercyclic subspace.