Ascent, descent and roots of Fredholm operators
Bertram Yood (2003)
Studia Mathematica
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Let T be a Fredholm operator on a Banach space. Say T is rootless if there is no bounded linear operator S and no positive integer m ≥ 2 such that . Criteria and examples of rootlessness are given. This leads to a study of ascent and descent whether finite or infinite for T with examples having infinite ascent and descent.