Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, 832 00 Karlovassi, Samos, Greece ; Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, 832 00 Karlovassi, Samos, Greece
Abstract:
We prove that an adjointable contraction acting on a countably generated Hilbert module over a separable unital C*-algebra is compact if and only if the set of its second contractive perturbations is separable.