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Generators of Nest Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

W. E. Longstaff
W. E. Longstaff*
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University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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A collection of subspaces of a Hilbert space is called a nest if it is totally ordered by inclusion. The set of all bounded linear operators leaving invariant each member of a given nest forms a weakly-closed algebra, called a nest algebra. Nest algebras were introduced by J. R. Ringrose in [9]. The present paper is concerned with generating nest algebras as weakly-closed algebras, and in particular with the following question which was first raised by H. Radjavi and P. Rosenthal in [8], viz: Is every nest algebra on a separable Hilbert space generated, as a weakly-closed algebra, by two operators? That the answer to this question is affirmative is proved by first reducing the problem using the main result of [8] and then by using a characterization of nests due to J. A. Erdos [2].

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 1974 , pp. 565 - 575
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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