Normal operators and inequalities in norm ideals (Q732068)

Motivated by \textit{B.\,Magajna}, \textit{M.\,Petkovšek} and \textit{A.\,Turnšek} [Linear Algebra Appl.\ 377, 181--194 (2004; Zbl 1060.47024)], the author characterizes normal invertible operators via inequalities with the unitarily invariant norm of elementary operators. More precisely, he shows that, if \(S\) is an invertible operator on a Hilbert space \(H\) and \(\mathcal{I}\) is a norm ideal, then the following conditions are equivalent: (i) \(S\) is normal; (ii) \(\|SXS^{-1}\|_{\mathcal{I}} + \|S^{-1}XS\|_{\mathcal{I}}= \|S^*XS^{-1}\|_{\mathcal{I}}+ \|S^{-1}XS^*\|_{\mathcal{I}}\) for every \(X \in \mathcal{I}\); (iii) \(\|SXS^{-1}\|_{\mathcal{I}} + \|S^{-1}XS\|_{\mathcal{I}} \geq \|S^*XS^{-1}\|_{\mathcal{I}}+ \|S^{-1}XS^*\|_{\mathcal{I}}\) for every \(X \in \mathcal{I}\); (iv)\(\|SXS^{-1}\|_{\mathcal{I}}+ \|S^{-1}XS\|_{\mathcal{I}} \geq 2\|X\|_{\mathcal{I}}\) for every \(X \in \mathcal{I}\); (v) \(\|SXS^{-1}\|_{\mathcal{I}} + \|S^{-1}XS\|_{\mathcal{I}} \geq 2\|X\|_{\mathcal{I}}\) for every \(X \in \mathcal{I}\), with rank \(1\).