Wold-type decomposition for some regular operators (Q2348431)

Let \(\mathcal H\) be a Hilbert space and \({\mathcal L} (\mathcal H)\) denote the algebra of bounded linear operators on \(\mathcal H\). For an operator \(T \in {\mathcal L} (\mathcal H)\), let \(R(T)\) denote the range space of \(T\) and \(N(T)\) stand for the null space of \(T\). \(T \in {\mathcal L} (\mathcal H)\) is called \textit{regular} if \(R(T)\) is closed and if \(N(T^k) \subseteq R(T)\) for all \(k \geq 1\). This notion was introduced in an earlier work of the second author [ibid. 189, No.~2, 362--377 (1995; Zbl 0821.47004)]. In the present paper, many results for regular operators are proved. For a bounded linear operator \(A \in {\mathcal L} (\mathcal H)\), the \textit{reduced minimum modulus} \(\gamma(A)\) is defined by \(\gamma(A) = \inf\{ \| Ax \|: \| x \| =1,\;x \in N(A)^{\perp}\}\). The \textit{Moore-Penrose inverse} of \(A\) (if it exists) is the unique operator \(X \in {\mathcal L} (\mathcal H)\) that satisfies the equations: \(AXA=A; XAX=X; (AX)^* =AX\) and \((XA)^*=XA\). It is denoted by \(A^{\dagger}\). It is well known that \(A^{\dagger}\) exists if and only if \(R(A)\) is closed. Let \(T \in {\mathcal L} (\mathcal H)\) be regular with \(\gamma(T) \geq 1\). Among other things, the authors show that \(T^{\dagger}\) is a regular operator and that the space \(\mathcal H\) has a certain Wold-type decomposition expressed in terms of the operator \(T\).