A note on approximate similarity (Q2770397)

The following notion of approximate similarity was introduced by the author some time ago. A sequence \((A_n)\) of bounded linear operators on Hilbert space is said to be invertibly bounded if \(\sup_{n\geq 1}\|A_n\|\|A_n^{-1}\|< \infty\). Two operators \(S,T \in B(H)\) are called approximately similar if there is an invertibly bounded sequence \((A_n)\) such that \(\|A_nSA_n^{-1} - T\|\to 0\). If all of the \(A_n\)'s can be chosen to be unitary, we say that \(S\) and \(T\) are approximately equivalent. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the present paper, the author discusses the question whether approximate similarity is the equivalence relation generated by approximate equivalence and similarity.