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The compact operators on $c_0$ as a Calkin algebra

Functional Analysis 2024-03-08 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

For a Banach space XX, let L(X)\mathcal{L}(X) denote the algebra of all bounded linear operators on XX and let K(X)\mathcal{K}(X) denote the compact operator ideal in L(X)\mathcal{L}(X). The quotient algebra L(X)/K(X)\mathcal{L}(X)/\mathcal{K}(X) is called the Calkin algebra of XX, and it is denoted Cal(X)\mathcal{C}al(X). We prove that the unitization of K(c0)\mathcal{K}(c_0) is isomorphic as a Banach algebra to the Calkin algebra of some Banach space ZK(c0)\mathcal{Z}_{\mathcal{K}(c_0)}. This Banach space is an Argyros-Haydon sum (n=1Xn)AH(\oplus_{n=1}^\infty X_n)_\mathrm{AH} of a sequence of copies XnX_n of a single Argyros-Haydon space XAH\mathfrak{X}_\mathrm{AH}, and the external versus the internal Argyros-Haydon construction parameters are chosen from disjoint sets.

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@article{arxiv.2403.04137,
  title  = {The compact operators on $c_0$ as a Calkin algebra},
  author = {Pavlos Motakis and Daniele Puglisi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.04137},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23 pages, no figures

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