Biisometric operators and biorthogonal sequences

Abstract: It is shown that a pair of Hilbert space operators V and W such that V*W=I (called a biisometric pair) shares some common properties with unilateral shifts when orthonormal basis are replaced with biorthogonal sequences, and it is also shown how such a pair of biisometric operators yields a pair of biorthogonal sequences which are shifted by them. These are applied to a class of Laguerre operators on L2.