Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
It is shown that the essential spectrum of a cyclic, self-dual, subnormal operator is symmetric with respect to the real axis. The study of the structure of a cyclic, irreducible, self-dual, subnormal operator is reduced to the operator Sμ with bpeμ = D. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a cyclic subnormal operator Sμ with bpeμ = D to be self-dual are obtained under the additional assumption that the measure on the unit circle is log-integrable. Finally, an approach to a general cyclic, self-dual, subnormal operator is discussed.