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A note on a Halmos problem

Functional Analysis 2024-09-04 v1

Abstract

We address the existence of non-trivial closed invariant subspaces of operators TT on Banach spaces whenever their square T2T^2 have or, more generally, whether there exists a polynomial pp with \mboxdeg(p)2\mbox{deg}(p)\geq 2 such that the lattice of invariant subspaces of p(T)p(T) is non-trivial. In the Hilbert space setting, the T2T^2-problem was posed by Halmos in the seventies and in 2007, Foias, Jung, Ko and Pearcy conjectured it could be equivalent to the \emph{Invariant Subspace Problem}.

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@article{arxiv.2409.01167,
  title  = {A note on a Halmos problem},
  author = {Maximiliano Contino and Eva Gallardo-Gutierrez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.01167},
  year   = {2024}
}

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To be published on Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

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