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On commutators of square-zero Hilbert space operators

Part of: General theory of linear operators Special classes of linear operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2025

Laurent W. Marcoux Open the ORCID record for Laurent W. Marcoux [Opens in a new window] ,
Heydar Radjavi  and
Yuanhang Zhang Open the ORCID record for Yuanhang Zhang [Opens in a new window]
Laurent W. Marcoux
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 e-mail: [email protected]
Heydar Radjavi
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 e-mail: [email protected]
Yuanhang Zhang*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China
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e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Let $\mathcal H$ be a complex, separable Hilbert space, and set . When $\dim \, \mathcal H$ is finite, we characterise the set and its norm-closure . In the infinite-dimensional setting, we characterise the intersection of with the set of biquasitriangular operators, and we exhibit an index obstruction to belonging to .

Keywords

Commutatorsnilpotents of order twobiquasitriangular

MSC classification

Primary: 47B47: Commutators, derivations, elementary operators, etc.
Secondary: 47A58: Operator approximation theory
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , First View , pp. 1 - 36
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Footnotes

Laurent W. Marcoux is supported in part by NSERC (Canada); Yuanhang Zhang is supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.: 12071174)

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