The Taylor-Browder spectrum on prime C\(^*\)-algebras (Q434292)

\textit{R. E. Curto} and \textit{C. Hernández-Garcíadiego} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 125, No. 11, 3299--3301 (1997; Zbl 0887.46034)] proved that the Taylor joint spectrum of the pair \((L_a,R_b)\) of left and right multiplication operators acting on a \(C^*\)-algebra is exactly the Cartesian product of the spectra of \(a\) and \(b\). In fact, this spectral formula characterizes prime \(C^*\)-algebras. In the present paper, the author presents a formula for the Taylor-Browder spectrum of a pair \((L_a,R_b)\) on a prime \(C^*\)-algebra with nonzero socle. He computes ascent and descent for multiplication operators on a prime ring and characterizes Browder elements in a prime \(C^*\)-algebra. He also shows that the Browder joint spectrum for commuting \(n\)-tuples is not always an upper semicontinuous map.