On West and Stampfli decomposition of operators (Q4382136)

Let \(T\), \(S\) and \(Q\) be bounded linear operators in a Banach space such that \(T = S + Q\). If \(S\) is meromorphic (i.e. the nonzero points in the spectrum \(\sigma (S)\) of \(S\) are poles of its resolvent) and \(\sigma (Q)\) is contained in the set \(\operatorname{acc} \sigma(T)\) of all accumulation points of \(\sigma(T)\), the authors call \(T = S+Q\) a West-Stampfli decomposition of \(T\). The authors give under certain conditions a construction of such a decomposition of \(T\) from a chain of \(T\)-invariant subspaces. This method subsumes many known decomposition results. From their results the authors deduce that in Hilbert spaces every operator with infinite spectrum has a meromorphic West-Stampfli decomposition. Finally, the authors obtain the following improvement on a result of \textit{C. Laurie} and \textit{H. Radjavi} [Bull. London Math. Soc. 12, 130-132 (1980; Zbl 0436.47012)]: If the set \(\operatorname{iso} \sigma(T)\) of all isolated points in \(\sigma(T)\) is infinite, if all these points are poles of finite multiplicity of the resolvent of \(T\) and if \(\sum_{n=1}^\infty \operatorname{dist}(\lambda_n, \operatorname{acc} \sigma(T)) < \infty\), where \(\{ \lambda_n \}\) is an enumeration of \(\operatorname{iso} \sigma(T)\) according to its multiplicity, then \(T\) has a West-Stampfli decomposition with compact \(S\) and the commutator \([S,T]\) is quasinilpotent.