Antinormal composition operators on $ \mbf{\ell^2}$

Abstract

A bounded linear operator $ T $ on a Hilbert space $ H $ is called antinormal if the distance of $ T $ from the set of all normal operators is equal to norm of $ T $. In this paper, we give a complete characterization of antinormal composition operators on $ \ell^2 $, where $ \ell^2 $ is the Hilbert space of all square summable sequences of complex numbers under standard inner product on it.