Almost Invariant Half-spaces of Algebras of Operators

Given a Banach space X and a bounded linear operator T on X, a subspace Y of X is almost invariant under T if TY í Y+F{TY\subseteq Y+F} for some finite-dimensional “error” F. In this paper, we study subspaces that are almost invariant under every operator in an algebra \mathfrak A{\mathfrak A} of operators acting on X. We show that if \mathfrak A{\mathfrak A} is norm closed then the dimensions of “errors” corresponding to operators in \mathfrak A{\mathfrak A} must be uniformly bounded. Also, if \mathfrak A{\mathfrak A} is generated by a finite number of commuting operators and has an almost invariant half-space (that is, a subspace with both infinite dimension and infinite codimension) then \mathfrak A{\mathfrak A} has an invariant half-space.     

Invariant subspaces of positive strictly singular operators on Banach lattices

It is shown that every positive strictly singular operator T on a Banach lattice satisfying certain conditions is AM-compact and has invariant subspaces. Moreover, every positive operator commuting with T has an invariant subspace. It is also proved that on such spaces the product of a disjointly strictly singular and a regular AM-compact operator is strictly singular. Finally, we prove that on these spaces the known invariant subspace results for compact-friendly operators can be extended to strictly singular-friendly operators.     

Algebra descent spectrum of operators

We say that a Banach space X satisfies the “descent spectrum equality” (in short, DSE) whenever, for every bounded linear operator T on X, the descent spectrum of T as an operator coincides with the descent spectrum of T as an element of the algebra of all bounded linear operators on X. We prove that the DSE is fulfilled by ℓ₁, all Hilbert spaces, and all Banach spaces which are not isomorphic to any of their proper quotients (so, in particular, by the hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces [8]), but not by ℓ _p , for 1 < p ≤ ∞ with p ≠ 2. Actually, a Banach space is not isomorphic to any of its proper quotients if and only if it is not isomorphic to any of its proper complemented subspaces and satisfies the DSE.     

Large subspaces ofl ∞ n and estimates of the gordon-lewis constantand estimates of the gordon-lewis constant

Lower bounds are obtained for thegl constants and hence also for the unconditional basis constants of subspaces of finite dimensional Banach spaces. Sharp results are obtained for subspaces ofl _∞ ⁿ , while in the general case thegl constants of “random large” subspaces are related to the distance of “random large” subspaces to Euclidean spaces. In addition, a new isometric characterization ofl _∞ ⁿ is given, some new information is obtained concerningp-absolutely summing operators, and it is proved that every Banach space of dimensionn contains a subspace whose projection constant is of ordern ^1/2. The research for this paper was begun while both authors were guests of the Mittag-Leffler Institute. Supported in part by NSF-MCS 79-03042.     

Spectrum of operators in ideal spaces

One considers “weighted translation” operators in ideal Banach spaces. It is proved that if the translation is aperiodic (the set of periodic points has measure zero), then the spectrum of such an operator is rotationinvariant. This result can be extended (under certain additional restrictions) to “weighted translation” operators acting in regular subspaces of ideal spaces, in particular, to operators in Hardy spaces. In this note we prove the rotation-invariance of the spectrum of aperiodic operators of “weighted translation” in ideal spaces and uniform B-algebras. Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 65, pp. 196–198, 1976.     

Operator enumeration in ultradifferentiable vectors

A general method of constructing functions of unbounded operators acting in Banach spaces is set forth. It is based on equipping the initial space with invariant subspaces of ultradifferential vectors of a specified operator and describing the spectral properties of the initial space in the topological algebras which thereby arise.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 502–513, April, 1992.     

<Emphasis Type="Italic">c</Emphasis><Subscript>0</Subscript>-Singular and <Emphasis Type="Italic">ℓ</Emphasis><Subscript>1</Subscript>-singular operators between vector-valued Banach lattices

Given an operator T : X → Y between Banach spaces, and a Banach lattice E consisting of measurable functions, we consider the point-wise extension of the operator to the vector-valued Banach lattices T _E : E(X) → E(Y) given by T _E (f)(ω) = T(f(ω)). It is proved that for any Banach lattice E which does not contain c ₀, the operator T is an isomorphism on a subspace isomorphic to c ₀ if and only if so is T _E . An analogous result for invertible operators on subspaces isomorphic to ℓ ₁ is also given.     

Almost Invariant Half-Spaces of Operators on Banach Spaces

We introduce and study the following modified version of the Invariant Subspace Problem: whether every operator T on an infinite-dimensional Banach space has an almost invariant half-space, that is, a subspace Y of infinite dimension and infinite codimension such that Y is of finite codimension in T(Y). We solve this problem in the affirmative for a large class of operators which includes quasinilpotent weighted shift operators on ℓ_p (1 ≤ p < ∞) or c₀.     

Quasiaffinity and invariant subspaces

Special classes of intertwining transformations between Hilbert spaces are introduced and investigated, whose purposes are to provide partial answers to some classical questions on the existence of nontrivial invariant subspaces for operators acting on separable Hilbert spaces. The main result ensures that if an operator is \({{\mathcal D}}\)-intertwined to a normal operator, then it has a nontrivial invariant subspace.     

Seminorm Related to Banach-Saks Property and Real Interpolation of Operators

We introduce the arithmetic separation of a sequence—a geometric characteristic for bounded sequences in a Banach space which describes the Banach-Saks property. We define an operator seminorm vanishing for operators with the Banach-Saks property. We prove quantitative stability of the seminorm for a class of operators acting between l _p -sums of Banach spaces. We show logarithmically convex-type estimates of the seminorm for operators interpolated by the real method of Lions and Peetre.      

Strongly irreducible operators on Banach spaces

This paper firstly discusses the existence of strongly irreducible operators on Banach spaces. It shows that there exist strongly irreducible operators on Banach spaces with w*-separable dual. It also gives some properties of strongly irreducible operators on Banach spaces. In particular, if T is a strongly irreducible operator on an infinite-dimensional Banach space, then T is not of finite rank and T is not an algebraic operator. On Banach spaces with subsymmetric bases, including infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces, it shows that quasisimilarity does not preserve strong irreducibility. In addition, we show that the strong irreducibility of an operator does not imply the strong irreducibility of its conjugate operator, which is not the same as the property in Hilbert spaces.     

On completely irreducible operators

Let T be a bounded linear operator on Hilbert space H, M an invariant subspace of T. If there exists another invariant subspace N of T such that H = M + N and M ∩ N = 0, then M is said to be a completely reduced subspace of T. If T has a nontrivial completely reduced subspace, then T is said to be completely reducible; otherwise T is said to be completely irreducible. In the present paper we briefly sum up works on completely irreducible operators that have been done by the Functional Analysis Seminar of Jilin University in the past ten years and more. The paper contains four sections. In section 1 the background of completely irreducible operators is given in detail. Section 2 shows which operator in some well-known classes of operators, for example, weighted shifts, Toeplitz operators, etc., is completely irreducible. In section 3 it is proved that every bounded linear operator on the Hilbert space can be approximated by the finite direct sum of completely irreducible operators. It is clear that a completely irreducible operator is a rather suitable analogue of Jordan blocks in L(H), the set of all bounded linear operators on Hilbert space H. In section 4 several questions concerning completely irreducible operators are discussed and it is shown that some properties of completely irreducible operators are different from properties of unicellular operators. __________ Translated from Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Jilin, 1992, (4): 20–29     

The invariant subspace problem for a class of Banach spaces, 2: Hypercyclic operators

We continue here the line of investigation begun in [7], where we showed that on every Banach spaceX=l ₁⊗W (whereW is separable) there is an operatorT with no nontrivial invariant subspaces. Here, we work on the same class of Banach spaces, and produce operators which not only have no invariant subspaces, but are also hypercyclic. This means that for every nonzero vectorx inX, the translatesT ^r x (r=1, 2, 3,...) are dense inX. This is an interesting result even if stated in a form which disregards the linearity ofT: it tells us that there is a continuous map ofX{0\{ into itself such that the orbit {T ^rx :r≧0{ of anyx teX \{0\{ is dense inX \{0\{. The methods used to construct the new operatorT are similar to those in [7], but we need to have somewhat greater complexity in order to obtain a hypercyclic operator.     

Invariant subspaces and localizable spectrum

LetT L(X) be a continuous linear operator on a complex Banach spaceX. We show thatT possesses non-trivial closed invariant subspaces if its localizable spectrum _loc(T) is thick in the sense of the Scott Brown theory. Since for quotients of decomposable operators the spectrum and the localizable spectrum coincide, it follows that each quasiaffine transformation of a Banach-space operator with Bishop's property () and thick spectrum has a non-trivial invariant subspace. In particular it follows that invariant-subspace results previously known for restrictions and quotients of decomposable operators are preserved under quasisimilarity.     

A dual method of constructing hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces

A new method of defining hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces is presented. This method provides a unified approach for constructing reflexive HI spaces and also HI spaces with no reflexive subspace. All the spaces presented here satisfy the property that the composition of any two strictly singular operators is a compact one. This yields the first known example of a Banach space with no reflexive subspace such that every operator has a non-trivial closed invariant subspace.     

Small Transitive Families of Dense Operator Ranges

In complex, separable, infinite-dimensional Hilbert space there exist 5 proper dense operator ranges with the property that every operator leaving each of them invariant is a scalar multiple of the identity. The algebra of operators leaving a pair of proper dense operator ranges invariant can have an infinite nest of invariant subspaces. A slight extension of Foiaş' Theorem shows that it can also have a non-trivial reducing subspace. Submitted: July 13, 2001? Revised: December 6, 2001.     

An application of the smooth variational principle to the existence of nontrivial invariant subspaces

We show that the consideration of Gâteaux smooth functions on Banach spaces which admit an equivalent Gâteaux smooth norm allows us to show that certain linear operators have nontrivial closed invariant subspaces. It is in particular the case of all operators on a real Banach space which admit a moment sequence.     

Version of the Grothendieck theorem for subspaces of analytic functions in lattices

A version of Grothendieck’s inequality says that any bounded linear operator acting from a Banach lattice X to a Banach lattice Y acts from X(ℓ²) to Y (ℓ²) as well. A similar statement is proved for Hardy-type subspaces in lattices of measurable functions. Namely, let X be a Banach lattice of measurable functions on the circle, and let an operator T act from the corresponding subspace of analytic functions X_A to a Banach lattice Y or, if Y is also a lattice of measurable functions on the circle, to the quotient space Y/Y_A. Under certain mild conditions on the lattices involved, it is proved that T induces an operator acting from X_A(ℓ²) to Y (ℓ²) or to Y/Y_A(ℓ2), respectively. Bibliography: 7 titles. __________ Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 327, 2005, pp. 5–16.     

Additive Maps Preserving Similarity of Operators on Banach Spaces

Let X be an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space and denote by B（X） the algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on X. It is shown that a surjective additive map Φ from B（X） onto itself preserves similarity in both directions if and only if there exist a scalar c, a bounded invertible linear or conjugate linear operator A and a similarity invariant additive functional ψ on B（X） such that either Φ（T） = cATA^-1 ＋ ψ（T）I for all T, or Φ（T） = cAT＊A^-1 ＋ ψ（T）I for all T. In the case where X has infinite multiplicity, in particular, when X is an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, the above similarity invariant additive functional ψ is always zero.