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Positive commutators of positive square-zero operators

Functional Analysis 2025-12-30 v1

Abstract

In this paper we first consider the question which nonnegative matrices are commutators of nonnegative square-zero matrices. Then, we treat infinite-dimensional analogues of these results for operators on the Banach lattices Lp[0,1]L^p[0,1] and p\ell^p (1p< 1 \leq p < \infty). In the last setting we need to extend the notion of the nonnegative rank of a nonnegative matrix.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22988,
  title  = {Positive commutators of positive square-zero operators},
  author = {Roman Drnovšek and Marko Kandić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22988},
  year   = {2025}
}

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14 pages

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