Existence of disjoint frequently hypercyclic operators which fail to be disjoint weakly mixing

Abstract: In this short note, we answer a question of Martin and Sanders [Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory, 85 (2) (2016), 191-220] by showing the existence of disjoint frequently hypercyclic operators which fail to be disjoint weakly mixing and, therefore, fail to satisfy the Disjoint Hypercyclicity Criterion. We also show that given an operator $T$ such that $T \oplus T$ is frequently hypercyclic, the set of operators $S$ such that $T, S$ are disjoint frequently hypercyclic but fail to satisfy the Disjoint Hypercyclicity Criterion is SOT dense in the algebra of bounded linear operators.