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Operators with Compact Self-Commutator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Carl Pearcy
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey; University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Norberto Salinas
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey; University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
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Let be a fixed separable, infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space, and let () denote the algebra of all (bounded, linear) operators on . The ideal of all compact operators on will be denoted by and the canonical quotient map from () onto the Calkin algebra ()/ will be denoted by π.

Some open problems in the theory of extensions of C*-algebras (cf. [1]) have recently motivated an increasing interest in the class of all operators in () whose self-commuta tor is compact.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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