A perturbation problem for the shift semigroup

Motivated by B. Tsirelson’s construction of E0-semigroups of type III, we investigate a C0-semigroup acting on the space of square integrable functions of the half line whose difference from the shift semigroup is a Hilbert–Schmidt operator. We give a description of such semigroups in terms of analytic functions on the right-half plane and construct several examples. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.