A multiplicative property characterizes quasinormal composition operators in $L^2$-spaces

Abstract: A densely defined composition operator in an $L^2$-space induced by a measurable transformation $\phi$ is shown to be quasinormal if and only if the Radon-Nikodym derivatives $h_{\phi^n}$ attached to powers $\phi^n$ of $\phi$ have the multiplicative property: $h_{\phi^n} = h_{\phi}^n$ almost everywhere for n = 0, 1, 2, ....