@Article{Ghosh2024, author = "Ghosh, Sagar and Misra, Gadadhar", title = "On the Möbius invariant principal functions of Pincus", journal = "Opuscula Math.", year = "2024", volume = "44", number = "3", pages = "391--407", doi = "https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2024.44.3.391", url = "https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2024.44.3.391", abstract = "In this semi-expository short note, we prove that the only homogeneous pure hyponormal operator \(T\) with \(\operatorname{rank} (T^*T-TT^*) =1\), modulo unitary equivalence, is the unilateral shift.", keywords = "hyponormal operator, multiplicity, trace formula, homogeneous operators, principal function", issn = "1232-9274" }