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Invariant subspaces of idempotents on Hilbert spaces

Functional Analysis 2022-04-27 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

In the setting of operators on Hilbert spaces, we prove that every quasinilpotent operator has a non-trivial closed invariant subspace if and only if every pair of idempotents with a quasinilpotent commutator has a non-trivial common closed invariant subspace. We also present a geometric characterization of invariant subspaces of idempotents and classify operators that are essentially idempotent.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12222,
  title  = {Invariant subspaces of idempotents on Hilbert spaces},
  author = {Neeru Bala and Nirupam Ghosh and Jaydeb Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12222},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 pages