Linear contraction mappings
The space of inessential bounded linear operators from one Banach space into another is introduced. This space, , is a subspace of which generalizes Kleinecke’s ideal of inessential operators. For certain subspaces of , it is shown that when has a generalized inverse modulo , then there exists a projection such that has a generalized inverse and .
We prove that a function f is a polynomial if G◦f is a polynomial for every bounded linear functional G. We also show that an operator-valued function is a polynomial if it is locally a polynomial.