Soft ideals and arithmetic mean ideals (Q2470877)

From the authors' abstract (slightly edited): ``This article investigates the soft-interior (se) and the soft-cover (sc) of operator ideals. These operations, and especially the first one, have been widely used before, but making their role explicit and analyzing their interplay with the arithmetic mean operations is essential for the study of the multiplicity of traces. Many classical ideals are soft, i.e., coincide with their soft interior or with their soft cover, and many ideal constructions yield soft ideals. Arithmetic mean (am) operations were proven to be intrinsic to the theory of operator ideals in [\textit{K.\,Dykema, G.\,Weiss} and \textit{M.\,Wodzicki}, Oper.\ Theory, Adv.\ Appl.\ 114, 59--65 (2000; Zbl 0948.47023)] and [\textit{K.\,Dykema, T.\,Figiel, G.\,Weiss} and \textit{M.\,Wodzicki}, Adv.\ Math.\ 185, No.\,1, 1--79 (2004; Zbl 1103.47054)], and arithmetic mean operations at infinity (am-\(\infty\)) were studied in a forthcoming article [of the authors]. Here we focus on the commutation relations between these operations and soft operations. In the process we characterize the am-interior and the am-\(\infty\) interior of an ideal.''