Closed-range posinormal operators and their products (Q6155672)

Let \(\mathcal{B(H)}\) be the algebra of all bounded operators defined on an infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}\). For any operator \(T \in \mathcal{B(H)}\), let \(\mathcal{N}(T)\) and \(\mathcal{R}(T)\) denote the kernel and the range of \(T\), respectively. An operator \(T \in \mathcal{B(H)}\) is said to be \textit{posinormal} if \(\mathcal{R}(T) \subseteq \mathcal{R}(T^{\ast})\) and \textit{quasiposinorma}l if \(\mathcal{R}(T)^{-} \subseteq \mathcal{R}(T^{\ast})^{-}\). If \(T\) is normal, we observe that (i) \(\mathcal{N}(T)\) reduces \(T\), (ii) \(0 \notin \sigma_{R}(T|_{\mathcal{N}(T)^{\perp}})\), where \(\sigma_{R}(\cdot)\) denotes the residual spectrum, and (iii) \(T|_{\mathcal{N}(T)^{\perp}}\) is isoloid. An operator \(T \in \mathcal{B(H)}\) is said to be of class \(\mathcal{NL}\) (``normal like'') provided \(T\) satisfies the conditions (i)--(iii) above. In this paper, the authors show that an operator of class \(\mathcal{NL}\) has closed range if and only if zero is not a limit point of its spectrum. As some applications, they give necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for posinormal operators to have closed range. Moreover, they discuss sufficient conditions ensuring the product of two commuting posinormal operators with closed range is a posinormal operator with closed range. Finally, they study the relationship between posinormal operators and EP operators \(T\) (as well as hypo-EP operators), which mean operators that have closed range and \(\mathcal{R}(T)=\mathcal{R}(T^{\ast})\).