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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2013
Let $\alpha : 1, 1, \sqrt{x} , \mathop{( \sqrt{u} , \sqrt{v} , \sqrt{w} )}\nolimits ^{\wedge } $ be a backward 3-step extension of a recursively generated weighted sequence of positive real numbers with
$1\leq x\leq u\leq v\leq w$ and let
${W}_{\alpha } $ be the associated weighted shift with weight sequence
$\alpha $. The set of positive real numbers
$x$ such that
${W}_{\alpha } $ is quadratically hyponormal for some
$u, v$ and
$w$ is described, solving an open problem due to Curto and Jung [‘Quadratically hyponormal weighted shifts with two equal weights’, Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory 37 (2000), 208–231].