An operator is a product of two quasi-nilpotent operators if and only if it is not semi-Fredholm

DOI10.1017/S0308210500004819zbMATH Open1114.47024arXivmath/0606516OpenAlexW2963375859MaRDI QIDQ3420180FDOQ3420180

Vladimír Müller, Nika Novak, Roman Drnovšek

Publication date: 1 February 2007

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that a (bounded linear) operator acting on an infinite-dimensional, separable, complex Hilbert space can be written as a product of two quasi-nilpotent operators if and only if it is not a semi-Fredholm operator. This solves the problem posed by Fong and Sourour in 1984. We also consider some closely related questions. In particular, we show that an operator can be expressed as a product of two nilpotent operators if and only if its kernel and co-kernel are both infinite-dimensional. This answers the question implicitly posed by Wu in 1989.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0606516

zbMATH Keywords

factorizationsemi-Fredholm operatornilpotent operatorquasi-nilpotent operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories (47A53) Quasitriangular and nonquasitriangular, quasidiagonal and nonquasidiagonal linear operators (47A66) Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) of linear operators (47A68)

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• On linear maps preserving generalized invertibility and related properties
• Products of square-zero operators
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