University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824 U.K.;Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4H8, Canada;University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
Abstract:
An example is presented of a Hilbert space operator such that no non-scalar operator that commutes with it commutes with a non-zero compact operator. This shows that Lomonosov's invariant subspace theorem does not apply to every operator.