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Item Commutants of composition operators on the Hardy space of the disk(2013-11-06) Carter, James Michael; Cowen, Carl C.; Klimek, Slawomir; Perez, Rodrigo A.; Chin, Raymond; Bell, Steven R.; Mukhin, EvgenyThe main part of this thesis, Chapter 4, contains results on the commutant of a semigroup of operators defined on the Hardy Space of the disk where the operators have hyperbolic non-automorphic symbols. In particular, we show in Chapter 5 that the commutant of the semigroup of operators is in one-to-one correspondence with a Banach algebra of bounded analytic functions on an open half-plane. This algebra of functions is a subalgebra of the standard Newton space. Chapter 4 extends previous work done on maps with interior fixed point to the case of the symbol of the composition operator having a boundary fixed point.Item Restrictions to Invariant Subspaces of Composition Operators on the Hardy Space of the Disk(2014-01-29) Thompson, Derek Allen; Cowen, Carl C.; Ji, Ronghui ; Klimek, Slawomir; Bell, Steven R.; Mukhin, EvgenyInvariant subspaces are a natural topic in linear algebra and operator theory. In some rare cases, the restrictions of operators to different invariant subspaces are unitarily equivalent, such as certain restrictions of the unilateral shift on the Hardy space of the disk. A composition operator with symbol fixing 0 has a nested sequence of invariant subspaces, and if the symbol is linear fractional and extremally noncompact, the restrictions to these subspaces all have the same norm and spectrum. Despite this evidence, we will use semigroup techniques to show many cases where the restrictions are still not unitarily equivalent.