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Real parts of quasi-nilpotent operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

P. A. Fillmore ,
C. K. Fong  and
A. R. Sourour
P. A. Fillmore
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
C. K. Fong
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
A. R. Sourour
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: which self-adjoint operators on a separable Hilbert space are the real parts of quasi-nilpotent operators? In the finite-dimensional case the answer is: self-adjoint operators with trace zero. In the infinite dimensional case, we show that a self-adjoint operator is the real part of a quasi-nilpotent operator if and only if the convex hull of its essential spectrum contains zero. We begin by considering the finite dimensional case.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , October 1979 , pp. 263 - 269
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1979

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