Applications of the minimum modulus function in operator algebras (Q1364840)

The minimum modulus function in operator algebra is well and widely used for perturbation estimates of Fredholm and semi-Fredholm operators in Banach spaces. In the article, the author made an attempt to use these results in the setting of operator algebras. We give some definitions first. \(M\) will denote a von Neumann algebra which is contained in \(B(H)\), the bounded linear operators on the Hilbert space \(H\). \(Z(M)\) denotes the center of \(M\). We give the main result of this article. Theorem 2.4. Suppose \(M\) is a von Neumann algebra and suppose \(T\) is a nontrivial norm-closed ideal of \(M\). Let \(s(T)= V\{p: p\in T^p\}\), where \(T^p= T\cap M^p\), \(M^p\) is the lattice of orthogonal projections from \(M\). (I) If \(s(T)\neq I\) then proposition \((*)\) below fails regardless. II) If \(s(T)= I\) then the following three possibilities arise: (a) all properly infinite members of \(M^p\) belong to \(T\); (b) there is exactly one central properly infinite projection not belonging to \(T\); (c) there are two or more centrally orthogonal properly infinite projections not belonging to \(T\). \((*)\) Suppose \(x\in M\) is non-semi-Fredholm relative to the closed two sided ideal \(T\), but has closed range. Then there exists \(y\in T\) such that \(x+\lambda y\) does not have closed range for every \(\lambda\neq 0\).