On a question of N. Salinas
01 Jan 1986-Vol. 98, Iss: 1, pp 94-96
TL;DR: For a doubly commuting n-tuple of quasinormal operators, it was shown in this article that 5(T A) = d(A, a, (T)) and r, r, T A = I IDT II.
Abstract: In [5], Salinas asked the following question: If T = (Ti,.. , Tn) consists of commuting hyponormal operators, is it true that (1) 5(T A) = d(A, a, (T)) and (2) r, (T) = I IDT II? He proved that, for a doubly commuting n-tuple of quasinormal operators, (2) was true and (1) was true for A = 0. In this paper we shall show that (2) holds for a doubly commuting n-tuple of hyponormal operators and give an example of a subnormal operator which does not satisfy (1).
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the class of almost doubly commuting Fredholm pairs with a semi-Fredholm coordinate and obtained a characterization of joint invertibility in terms of a single operator and studied the main examples at length.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the joint numerical status of Ax and A2 on a Hubert space is defined as such that φ is a state on the C*-algebra generated by Ax and Ai.
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