Weakly supercyclic operators

Inspired by a recent result that a weakly hypercyclic operator may fail to be norm hypercyclic, we show there exists a weakly supercyclic operator that fails to be norm supercyclic. Moreover, despite a classical result of Hilden and Wallen that every unilateral weighted backward shift is supercyclic, we show such an operator may have a weakly supercyclic vector that is not a norm supercyclic vector. In addition to these results, we extend a result of Kitai by showing a hyponormal operator cannot be weakly hypercyclic. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.