Weighted pre-orders in a Banach algebra (Q2404969)

Let \(R\) be a complex unital ring or algebra and \(w\in R\) a fixed nonzero element. An element \(a\in R\) is called \(wg\)-Drazin invertible (with \(wg\)-Drazin inverse \(b\)) if there exists a unique \(b\in R\) such that \(awb=bwa\), \(bwawb=b\) and \(a-awbwa\) is a quasinilpotent element of \(R\). In the case when \(a-awbwa\) is a nilpotent element of \(R\), then \(a\) is called \(w\)-Drazin invertible (with \(w\)-Drazin inverse \(b\)). The first chapter is preparatory, providing some lemmas to be used further on. These lemmas are considered in the case when \(R\) is a Banach algebra. In the second chapter, several known weighted pre-orders on a unital Banach algebra are defined and many results involving \(wg\)-Drazin invertible elements of a unital Banach algebra are provided. The fourth chapter continues in the same setting with some new weighted pre-orders. The reviewer got the impression that in the provided proofs, the fact that an algebra should be a Banach algebra is actually not used. It is only used in order to use some results by other authors. Hence, perhaps a more general setting with general unital algebras would have been more interesting. The fourth chapter is written in the more general setting where unital rings are considered instead of unital Banach algebras. But, on the other hand, here the restriction is put on the invertibility, using \(w\)-Drazin invertibility instead of \(wg\)-Drazin invertibility. No proofs are presented in the more general setting. The results are analogues of the results of Chapters 2 and 3. Since there has not been any use of the norm or completeness in the provided proofs, one could quite possibly obtain a more general paper where the Banach condition for algebras is removed and replaced with some more algebraic conditions, if needed, for having analogues of the used results from former papers.