Nests in Banach space (Q1176904)

The author considers nest algebras of operators on Banach spaces and asks how much of the known results about Hilbert space case carry over to Banach space case. If the Banach space is sufficiently looking like a Hilbert space, then some of them carry over: Theorem 1. If \(\mathcal N\) is a regular nest in a reflexive Banach space, then the radical of \(Alg \mathcal N\) coincides with the intersection of the diagonal ideals of \(Alg \mathcal N\) and is also equal to \[ \{T\in Alg {\mathcal N}: ST\text{ and }S^*T^*\text{ have no non-zero eigenvalues }(S\in Alg {\mathcal N})\}. \] Theorem 2. Suppose in a reflexive Banach space a nest of complemented Subspaces \(\mathcal N\) and its dual both satisfy Lance's criterion. Then the radical of \(Alg \mathcal N\) coincides with the intersection of the diagonal ideals of \(Alg \mathcal N\) and is also equal to \[ \{T\in Alg{\mathcal N}: ST\text{ and }S^*T^*\text{ have no non-zero eigenvalues }(S\in Alg {\mathcal N}\}. \]