Properties of the combinations of commutative idempotents (Q648938)

An operator \(T\in B(H)\) is called idempotent if \(T^2=T\). The linear combinations of idempotents have been investigated for many years, see, for instance, \textit{J. Benítez}, \textit{X.-J. Liu} and \textit{T.-P. Zhu} [Linear Multilinear Algebra 58, No.~7--8, 1023--1035 (2010; Zbl 1204.15009)] and references therein. The purpose of the present paper is to characterize the invertibility, the group invertibility and idempotency of the linear combinations of idempotents and their products under certain commutativity properties imposed on idempotents.