We investigate when a C*-algebra element generates a closed ideal, and discuss Moore-Penrose and commuting generalized inverses.

An operator T acting on a Banach space X has property (gw) if ${\sigma }_a\left(T\right)\setminus {\sigma }_{SBF₊¯}\left(T\right)=E\left(T\right)$, where ${\sigma }_a\left(T\right)$ is the approximate point spectrum of T, ${\sigma }_{SBF₊¯}\left(T\right)$ is the upper semi-B-Weyl spectrum of T and E(T) is the set of all isolated eigenvalues of T. We introduce and study two new spectral properties (v) and (gv) in connection with Weyl type theorems. Among other results, we show that T satisfies (gv) if and only if T satisfies (gw) and $\sigma \left(T\right)={\sigma }_a\left(T\right)$.

We use a non-commutative generalization of the Banach Principle to show that the classical individual ergodic theorem for subsequences generated by means of uniform sequences can be extended to the von Neumann algebra setting.

We give several characterizations of the improjective operators, introduced by Tarafdar, and we characterize the inessential operators among the improjective operators. It is an interesting problem whether both classes of operators coincide in general. A positive answer would provide, for example, an intrinsic characterization of the inessential operators. We give several equivalent formulations of this problem and we show that the inessential operators acting between certain pairs of Banach spaces...

 Let $F_i=1,...,N$ be affine mappings of ${ℝ}^n$. It is well known that if there exists j ≤ 1 such that for every ${\sigma }_1,...,{\sigma }_j\in 1,...,N$ the composition (1) $F_{\sigma 1}\circ ...\circ F_{{\sigma }_j}$ is a contraction, then for any infinite sequence ${\sigma }_1,{\sigma }_2,...\in 1,...,N$ and any $z\in {ℝ}^n$, the sequence (2)$F_{\sigma 1}\circ ...\circ F_{{\sigma }_n}\left(z\right)$ is convergent and the limit is independent of z. We prove the following converse result: If (2) is convergent for any $z\in {ℝ}^n$ and any $\sigma ={\sigma }_1,{\sigma }_2,...$ belonging to some subshift Σ of N symbols (and the limit is independent of z), then there exists j ≥ 1 such that for every $\sigma ={\sigma }_1,{\sigma }_2,...\in \Sigma$ the composition (1) is a contraction. This result...

In the paper we study the existence of nonzero positive invariant elements for positive operators in Riesz spaces. The class of Riesz spaces for which the results are valid is large enough to contain all the Banach lattices with order continuous norms. All the results obtained in earlier works deal with positive operators in KB-spaces and in many of them the approach is based upon the use of Banach limits. The methods created for KB-spaces cannot be extended to our more general setting; that is...

We give a counterexample showing that $\overline{(I-T*)L_{\infty }}\cap L_{\infty }^{+}=0$ does not imply the existence of a strictly positive function u in $L_1$ with Tu = u, where T is a power bounded positive linear operator on $L_1$ of a σ-finite measure space. This settles a conjecture by Brunel, Horowitz, and Lin.

We discuss the invariant subspace problem of polynomially bounded operators on a Banach space and obtain an invariant subspace theorem for polynomially bounded operators. At the same time, we state two open problems, which are relative propositions of this invariant subspace theorem. By means of the two relative propositions (if they are true), together with the result of this paper and the result of C. Ambrozie and V. Müller (2004) one can obtain an important conclusion that every polynomially...

Let (X,d) be a metric space where all closed balls are compact, with a fixed σ-finite Borel measure μ. Assume further that X is endowed with a linear order ⪯. Given a Markov (regular) operator P: L¹(μ) → L¹(μ) we discuss the asymptotic behaviour of the iterates Pⁿ. The paper deals with operators P which are Feller and such that the μ-absolutely continuous parts of the transition probabilities ${P(x,·)}_{x\in X}$ are continuous with respect to x. Under some concentration assumptions on the asymptotic transition probabilities...