Operators that attain the reduced minimum

Abstract: Let

H_{1}, H_{2}

be complex Hilbert spaces and

T

be a densely defined closed linear operator from its domain

D (T)

, a dense subspace of

H_{1}

, into

H_{2}

. Let

N (T)

denote the null space of

T

and

R (T)

denote the range of

T

. Recall that

C (T) := D (T) c a p N (T)^{p e r p}

is called the {it carrier space of}

T

and the {it reduced minimum modulus }

g a m m a (T)

of

T

is defined as:

gamma(T) := inf {|T(x)| : x in C(T), |x| = 1 } .

Further, we say that

T

{it attains its reduced minimum modulus} if there exists

x_{0} i n C (T)

such that

| x_{0} | = 1

and

| T (x_{0}) | = g a m m a (T)

. We discuss some properties of operators that attain reduced minimum modulus. In particular, the following results are proved.

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