We give several necessary and sufficient conditions in order that a bounded linear operator on a Banach space be nilpotent. We also discuss three necessary conditions for nilpotency. Furthermore, we construct an infinite family (in one-to-one correspondence with the square-summable sequences ${\left(\epsilon ₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ of strictly positive real numbers) of nonnilpotent quasinilpotent operators on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, all the iterates of each of which have closed range. Each of these operators (as well as...

Let T be a bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space . For positive integers n and k, an operator T is called (n,k)-quasiparanormal if $\left|\right|T^{1+n}\left(T^{k}x\right){\left|\right|}^{1/(1+n)}\left|\right|T^k{x\left|\right|}^{n/(1+n)}\ge \left|\right|T\left(T^{k}x\right)\left|\right|$ for x ∈ . The class of (n,k)-quasiparanormal operators contains the classes of n-paranormal and k-quasiparanormal operators. We consider some properties of (n,k)-quasiparanormal operators: (1) inclusion relations and examples; (2) a matrix representation and SVEP (single valued extension property); (3) ascent and Bishop’s property (β); (4) quasinilpotent...

A multiplicative semigroup of idempotent operators is called an operator band. We prove that for each K>1 there exists an irreducible operator band on the Hilbert space $l^2$ which is norm-bounded by K. This implies that there exists an irreducible operator band on a Banach space such that each member has operator norm equal to 1. Given a positive integer r, we introduce a notion of weak r-transitivity of a set of bounded operators on a Banach space. We construct an operator band on $l^2$ that is weakly...

The Cauchy dual operator T’, given by $T{(T*T)}^{-1}$, provides a bounded unitary invariant for a closed left-invertible T. Hence, in some special cases, problems in the theory of unbounded Hilbert space operators can be related to similar problems in the theory of bounded Hilbert space operators. In particular, for a closed expansive T with finite-dimensional cokernel, it is shown that T admits the Cowen-Douglas decomposition if and only if T’ admits the Wold-type decomposition (see Definitions 1.1 and 1.2 below)....

We introduce and discuss a class of operators, to be referred to as operators close to isometries. The Bergman-type operators, 2-hyperexpansions, expansive p-isometries, and certain alternating hyperexpansions are main examples of such operators. We establish a few decomposition theorems for operators close to isometries. Applications are given to the theory of p-isometries and of hyperexpansive operators.

Let $B\left(X\right)$ be the algebra of all bounded linear operators in a complex Banach space $X$. We consider operators $T_1,T_2\in B\left(X\right)$ satisfying the relation ${\sigma }_{T_1}\left(x\right)={\sigma }_{T_2}\left(x\right)$ for any vector $x\in X$, where ${\sigma }_T\left(x\right)$ denotes the local spectrum of $T\in B\left(X\right)$ at the point $x\in X$. We say then that $T_1$ and $T_2$ have the same local spectra. We prove that then, under some conditions, $T_1-T_2$ is a quasinilpotent operator, that is $\parallel {(T_1-T_2)}^n{\parallel }^{1/n}\to 0$ as $n\to \infty$. Without these conditions, we describe the operators with the same local spectra only in some particular cases.

We show a polynomially boundend operator T is similar to a unitary operator if there is a singular unitary operator W and an injection X such that XT = WX. If, in addition, T is of class $C_{\varrho }$, then T itself is unitary.