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Structural Properties of Elementary Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Constantin Apostol
Affiliation:
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Lawrence Fialkow
Affiliation:
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
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Let and denote complex Banach algebras and let b e a left Banach module and a right Banach -module. If

we define the bounded linear elementary operator R(A, B), acting on , by

For the case , elementary operators were introduced by Lumer and Rosenblum [19], who studied their spectral properties. In this setting many authors subsequently studied spectral, algebraic, metric, and structural properties of elementary operators, with particular attention devoted to the inner derivations δaa(x) = ax – xa) [25], generalized derivations τ(a, b) (τ(a, b)(x) = ax – xb) [9, 10], and elementary multiplications S(a, b) (S(a, b)(x) = axb), including left and right multiplications La and Rb [11].

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