Gap and perturbation of non-semi-Fredholm operators.
We are mainly concerned with the result of Kaplansky on the composition of two normal operators in the case in which at least one of the operators is unbounded.
Commutativity and continuity conditions for the Moore-Penrose inverse and the "conorm" are established in a C*-algebra; moreover, spectral permanence and B*-properties for the conorm are proved.
According to the von Neumann-Halperin and Lapidus theorems, in a Hilbert space the iterates of products or, respectively, of convex combinations of orthoprojections are strongly convergent. We extend these results to the iterates of convex combinations of products of some projections in a complex Banach space. The latter is assumed uniformly convex or uniformly smooth for the orthoprojections, or reflexive for more special projections, in particular, for the hermitian ones. In all cases the proof...
Let be a unital Banach algebra over , and suppose that the nonzero spectral values of and are discrete sets which cluster at , if anywhere. We develop a plane geometric formula for the spectral semidistance of and which depends on the two spectra, and the orthogonality relationships between the corresponding sets of Riesz projections associated with the nonzero spectral values. Extending a result of Brits and Raubenheimer, we further show that and are quasinilpotent equivalent if...