The Drazin inverse of the linear combinations of two idempotents in the Banach algebra (Q417434)

The Drazin inverse of an element \(A\) of a Banach *-algebra \(\mathcal A\) is an element \(B \in \mathcal A\) such that \(BAB=B\), \(AB=BA\), \(A^{k+1}B=A^k\) for some \(k \in {\mathbb N}\). The smallest integer satisfying the latter condition is called the index of \(A\) and denoted by \(\text{ind}( A )\). In this paper the authors give formulae for the Drazin inverse \( (aP+bQ)^D\) of the linear combination of two idempotent elements of a Banach *-algebra \(\mathcal A\) under the assumption that \(PQP=0\), \(a,b \neq 0\) and show that \(\text{ind}( aP+bQ ) \leq 1\).