Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

A brief overview of some integrable and exactly-solvable Schroedinger equations with trigonometric potentials of Calogero-Moser-Sutherland type is given.All of them are characterized bya discrete symmetry of the Hamiltonian given by the affine Weyl group,a number of polynomial eigenfunctions and eigenvalues which are usually quadratic in the quantum number, each eigenfunction is an element of finite-dimensionallinear space of polynomials characterized by the highest root vector, anda factorization property for eigenfunctions. They admitan algebraic form in the invariants of a discrete symmetry group(in space of orbits) as 2nd order differential operator with polynomial coefficients anda hidden algebraic structure. The hidden algebraic structure for $A-B-C-D$-series is related to the universal enveloping algebra $U_{gl_n}$. For the exceptional $G-F-E$-seriesnew infinite-dimensional finitely-generated algebras of differential operatorswith generalized Gauss decomposition property occur.

The classification theorem for a C_0 operator describes its quasisimilarity class by means of its Jordan model. The purpose of this talk will be to investigate when the relation between the operator and its model can be improved to similarity. More precisely, when the minimal function of the operator T can be written as a product of inner functions satisfying the so-called (generalized) Carleson condition, we give some natural operator theoretic assumptions on T that guarantee similarity.

In the first part of the talk we will give a brief survey of significant results going from S. Brown pioneering work showing the existence of invariant subspaces for subnormal operators (1978) to Ambrozie-Muller breakthrough asserting the same conclusion for the adjoint of a polynomially bounded operator (on any Banach space) whose spectrum contains the unit circle (2003). The second part will try to give some insight of the different techniques involved in this series of results, culminating with a brilliant use of Carleson interpolation theory for the last one. In the last part of the talk we will discuss additional open questions which might be investigated by these techniques.