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A hereditarily indecomposable L_\infty-space that solves the scalar-plus-compact problem

Functional Analysis 2009-03-24 v2

Abstract

We construct a hereditarily indecomposable Banach space with dual isomorphic to 1\ell_1. Every bounded linear operator on this space has the form λI+K\lambda I+K with λ\lambda a scalar and KK compact.

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@article{arxiv.0903.3921,
  title  = {A hereditarily indecomposable L_\infty-space that solves the scalar-plus-compact problem},
  author = {Spiros A Argyros and Richard G Haydon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.3921},
  year   = {2009}
}
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