On hypercyclic rank one perturbations of unitary operators

Abstract Recently, S. Grivaux showed that there exists a rank one perturbation of a unitary operator in a Hilbert space which is hypercyclic. Another construction was suggested later by the first and the third authors. Here, using a functional model for rank one perturbations of singular unitary operators, we give yet another construction of hypercyclic rank one perturbation of a unitary operator. In particular, we show that any countable union of perfect Carleson sets on the circle can be the spectrum of a perturbed (hypercyclic) operator.