Completions of upper-triangular matrices to left-Fredholm operators with non-positive index (Q2835250)

Let \(\mathcal H\) and \(\mathcal K\) be infinite-dimensional complex separable Hilbert spaces and let \(\mathcal {B(H,K)}\) denote the space of all bounded linear operators from \(\mathcal H\) into \(\mathcal K\). Suppose that \(A\in \mathcal B(\mathcal H,\mathcal K)\) is a bounded operator with closed range \(\mathcal R(A)\). Then \(A\) is called a left semi-Fredholm operator if the dimension \(n(A)\) of the null space \(\mathcal N(A)\) of \(A\) is finite. If the codimension \(\beta(A)\) of the range \(\mathcal R(A)\) is finite, then \(A\) is called a right semi-Fredholm operator. An operator \(A\in \mathcal{B(H,K)}\) with closed range \(\mathcal{R}(A)\) is called a Fredholm operator if it is both a left and a right semi-Fredholm operator. The index of a Fredholm operator \(A\in \mathcal{B(H,K)}\) is defined as \(n(A)-\beta(A)\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper is an interesting and well-written contribution to the study of left-Fredholm operators with non-positive index and their spectra.