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Invariant subspaces of the quasinilpotent DT-operator

Operator Algebras 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We previously introduced the class of DT--operators, which are modeled by certain upper triangular random matrices, and showed that if the spectrum of a DT-operator is not reduced to a single point, then it has a nontrivial, closed, hyperinvariant subspace. In this paper, we prove that also every DT-operator whose spectrum is concentrated on a single point has a nontrivial, closed, hyperinvariant subspace. In fact, each such operator has a one-parameter family of them. It follows that every DT-operator generates the von Neumann algebra L(F_2) of the free group on two generators.

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@article{arxiv.math/0301112,
  title  = {Invariant subspaces of the quasinilpotent DT-operator},
  author = {Ken Dykema and Uffe Haagerup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0301112},
  year   = {2007}
}
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