Quasidiagonality and the hyperinvariant subspace problem (Q948889)

The hyperinvariant subspace problem asks whether every bounded operator on Hilbert space has a nontrivial hyperinvariant subspace. In their recent papers [\textit{C.\,Foiaş} and \textit{C.\,Pearcy}, J.~Funct.\ Anal.\ 219, No.\,1, 134--142 (2005; Zbl 1066.47004), \textit{C.\,Foiaş, S.\,Hamid, C.\,Onica} and \textit{C.\,Pearcy}, J.\ Funct.\ Anal.\ 222, No.\,1, 129--142 (2005; Zbl 1068.47008), \textit{S.\,Hamid, C.\,Onica} and \textit{C.\,Pearcy}, Indiana Univ.\ Math.\ J.\ 54, No.\,3, 743--754 (2005; Zbl 1071.47006)], the authors and their coworkers reduced the hyperinvariant problem to the question whether every completely nonunitary contraction operators in a special class that is quasidiagonal and has spectrum the unit disc has a nontrivial hyperinvariant subspaces. In the present paper, the authors explore a further reduction of the hyperinvariant subspace problem to the much-studied class of all operators that can be written as sum of a normal operator and a compact operator.