Department of Mathematics, Ewha Women's University, Seoul 120-750, Korea ; Department of Mathematics, Ewha Women's University, Seoul 120-750, Korea ; Department of Mathematics, Ewha Women's University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
Abstract:
In this paper we show that the Helton class of -hyponormal operators has scalar extensions. As a corollary we get that each operator in the Helton class of -hyponormal operators has a nontrivial invariant subspace if its spectrum has its interior in the plane.