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Bull. Korean Math. Soc. 2023; 60(6): 1555-1566

Online first article September 12, 2023      Printed November 30, 2023

https://doi.org/10.4134/BKMS.b220747

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Operators $A$, $B$ for which the Aluthge transform $\widetilde{AB}$ is a generalised $n$-projection

Bhagwati Duggal, In Hyoun Kim

University of Ni\v s; Incheon National University

Abstract

A Hilbert space operator $A\in{\mathcal B(H)}$ is a generalised \linebreak $n$-projection, denoted $A\in (G-n-P)$, if ${A^*}^n=A$. $(G-n-P)$-operators $A$ are normal operators with finitely countable spectra $\sigma(A)$, subsets of the set $\{0\}\cup\{\sqrt[n+1]{1}\}$. The Aluthge transform $\tilde{A}$ of $A\in{\mathcal B(H)}$ may be $(G-n-P)$ without $A$ being $(G-n-P)$. For doubly commuting operators $A, B\in{\mathcal B(H)}$ such that $\sigma(AB)=\sigma(A)\sigma(B)$ and $\|A\|\|B\|\leq \left\|\widetilde{AB}\right\|$, $\widetilde{AB}\in (G-n-P)$ if and only if $A=\left\|\tilde{A}\right\|(A_{00}\oplus(A_{0}\oplus A_u))$ and $B=\left\|\tilde{B}\right\|(B_0\oplus B_u)$, where $A_{00}$ and $B_0$, and $A_0\oplus A_u$ and $B_u$, doubly commute, $A_{00}B_0$ and $A_0$ are 2 nilpotent, $A_u$ and $B_u$ are unitaries, $A^{*n}_u=A_u$ and $B^{*n}_u=B_u$. Furthermore, a necessary and sufficient condition for the operators $\alpha A$, $\beta B$, $\alpha \tilde{A}$ and $\beta \tilde{B}$, $\alpha=\frac{1}{\left\|\tilde{A}\right\|}$ and $\beta=\frac{1}{\left\|\tilde{B}\right\|}$, to be $(G-n-P)$ is that $A$ and $B$ are spectrally normaloid at $0$.

Keywords: Hilbert space, generalised $n$-projection, Aluthge transform of a product of operators, tensor products, Hilbert-Schmidt operator

MSC numbers: Primary 47A62, 47B10, 47B20; Secondary 15A69, 47A05, 47B47

Supported by: The second named author was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2019R1F1A1057574).