A two-sided sequence ${\left(cₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}$ with values in a complex unital Banach algebra is a cosine sequence if it satisfies $c_{n+m}+c_{n-m}=2cₙcₘ$ for any n,m ∈ ℤ with c₀ equal to the unity of the algebra. A cosine sequence ${\left(cₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}$ is bounded if $su{p}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}\left|\right|cₙ\left|\right|<\infty$. A (bounded) group decomposition for a cosine sequence $c={\left(cₙ\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}$ is a representation of c as $cₙ=(bⁿ+b^{-n})/2$ for every n ∈ ℤ, where b is an invertible element of the algebra (satisfying $su{p}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}\left|\right|bⁿ\left|\right|<\infty$, respectively). It is known that every bounded cosine sequence possesses a universally defined group decomposition, the so-called...

We study similarity to partial isometries in C*-algebras as well as their relationship with generalized inverses. Most of the results extend some recent results regarding partial isometries on Hilbert spaces. Moreover, we describe partial isometries by means of interpolation polynomials.

the existence of an $\omega$-periodic solution of the equation $\frac{{\partial }^{2}u}{\partial t^2}+\alpha \frac{{\partial }^{4}u}{\partial x^4}+\gamma \frac{{\partial }^{5}u}{\partial x^4\partial t}-\tilde{\gamma }\frac{{\partial }^{3}u}{\partial x^2\partial t}+\delta \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\left[\beta +\aleph {\int }_0^n{\left(\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}\right)}^2(·,\xi )d\xi +\sigma {\int }_0^n\frac{{\partial }^{2}u}{\partial x\partial t}(·,\xi )\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(·,\xi )d\xi \right]\frac{{\partial }^{2}u}{\partial x^2}=f$ sarisfying the boundary conditions $u(t,0)=u(t,\pi )=\frac{{\partial }^{2}u}{\partial x^2}\left(t,0\right)=\frac{{\partial }^{2}u}{\partial x^2}\left(t,\pi \right)=0$ is proved for every $\omega$-periodic function $f\in C\left(\left[0,\omega \right],L_2\right)$.

An operator with infinite dimensional kernel is positive iff it is a positive scalar times a certain product of three projections.