We study the subset in a unital C*-algebra composed of elements a such that is invertible, where denotes the Moore-Penrose inverse of a. A distinguished subset of this set is also investigated. Furthermore we study sequences of elements belonging to the aforementioned subsets.
We study discontinuous invertibility preserving linear mappings from a Banach algebra into the algebra of n × n matrices and give an explicit representation of such a mapping when n = 2.
Operators on function spaces of form Cɸf = f ∘ ɸ, where ɸ is a fixed map are called composition operators with symbol ɸ. We study such operators acting on the Hilbert Hardy space over the right half-plane and characterize the situations when they are invertible, Fredholm, unitary, and Hermitian. We determine the normal composition operators with inner, respectively with Möbius symbol. In select cases, we calculate their spectra, essential spectra, and numerical ranges.
We show that if the set of all bounded strongly continuous cosine families on a Banach space X is treated as a metric space under the metric of the uniform convergence associated with the operator norm on the space 𝓛(X) of all bounded linear operators on X, then the isolated points of this set are precisely the scalar cosine families. By definition, a scalar cosine family is a cosine family whose members are all scalar multiples of the identity operator. We also show that if the sets of all bounded...
Let T be a bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space H. In this paper we introduce a new class, denoted *, of operators satisfying where k is a natural number, and we prove basic structural properties of these operators. Using these results, we also show that if E is the Riesz idempotent for a non-zero isolated point μ of the spectrum of T ∈ *, then E is self-adjoint and EH = ker(T-μ) = ker(T-μ)*. Some spectral properties are also presented.