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Multiplicative Commutators of Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Arlen Brown  and
Carl Pearcy
Arlen Brown
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
Carl Pearcy
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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An invertible operator T on a Hilbert space is a multiplicative commutator if there exist invertible operators A and B on such that T = ABA–1B–1. In this paper we discuss the question of which operators are, and which are not, multiplicative commutators. The analogous question for additive commutators (operators of the form AB — BA) has received considerable attention and has, in fact, been completely settled (2). The present results represent the information we have been able to obtain by carrying over to the multiplicative problem the techniques that proved efficacious in the additive situation. While these results remain incomplete, they suffice, for example, to enable us to determine precisely which normal operators are multiplicative commutators.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 18 , 1966 , pp. 737 - 749
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1966

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