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Range-kernel weak orthogonality of some elementary operators

  • Ahmed Bachir EMAIL logo , Abdelkader Segres and Nawal A. Sayyaf
From the journal Open Mathematics

Abstract

We study the range-kernel weak orthogonality of certain elementary operators induced by non-normal operators, with respect to usual operator norm and the Von Newmann-Schatten p -norm ( 1 p < ) .

MSC 2010: 47A30; 47B20; 47B47; 47B10

1 Introduction

Let B ( ) be the algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on a complex separable Hilbert space . Given A , B B ( ) , we define the generalized derivation δ A , B : B ( ) B ( ) by δ A , B ( X ) = A X X B .

Let X B ( ) be a compact operator, and let s 1 X s 2 X 0 denote the eigenvalues of X = X X 1 2 arranged in their decreasing order. The operator X is said to belong to the Schatten p -class C p ( ) , if

(1) X p = i = 1 s i X p 1 p = tr X p 1 p < + ,

where tr denotes the trace functional. In case p = , we denote by C ( ) , the ideal of compact operators equipped with the norm X = s 1 X . For p = 1 , C 1 is called the trace class, and for p = 2 , C 2 is called the Hilbert-Schmidt class and the case p = corresponds to the class. For more details, the reader is referred to [1]. In the sequel, we will use the following further notations and definitions. The closure of the range of an operator T B ( ) will be denoted by ran T ¯ and ker T denotes the kernel of T . The restriction of T to an invariant subspace will be denoted by T , and the commutator A B B A of the operators A , B will be denoted by [ A , B ] . We recall the definition of Birkhoff-James’s orthogonality in Banach spaces [2,3].

Definition 1

If X is a complex Banach space, then for any elements x , y X , we say that x is orthogonal to y , noted by x y , iff for all α , β C there holds

(2) α y + β x β x .

for all α , β C or R .

If and N are linear subspaces in X , we say that is orthogonal to N if x B J y for all x M and all y N . The orthogonality in this sense is asymmetric.

Let : B ( X ) be an involution defined on a linear subspace of B ( X ) onto the algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on the Banach space X and = . According to the definition given by Harte [4], E is called the Fuglede operator if ker E ker E .

The elementary operator is an operator E defined on Banach A , -bimodule with its representation E x = i = 1 n a i x b i , where a = a i i A n , b = b i i n are n -tuples of algebra elements. The length of E is defined to be the smallest number of multiplication terms required for any representation j a j x b j for E .

In this note, we consider A = = B ( ) and = B ( ) or = C p : ( 1 p < ) and the length of E will be less or equal to 2, i.e., if A = ( A 1 , A 2 ) , B = ( B 1 , B 2 ) are 2-tuples of operators in B ( ) 2 , then the elementary operator induced by A and B is defined by E ( X ) = A 1 X B 1 A 2 X B 2 for all X . We will denote by E ˜ the formal adjoint of E defined by E ˜ ( X ) = i J A i X B i for all X . Note also that E ˜ C 2 = ( E C 2 ) and E ( X ) = i J B i X A i on any separable ideal of compact operator, where E is the operator adjoint of E in the sense of duality.

J. Anderson [5] proved that if A and B are normal operators, then

(3) for all X , S B : S ker δ A , B δ A , B X + S S .

This means that the kernel of δ A , B is orthogonal to its range.

F. Kittaneh [6] extended this result to an u.i. ideal norm J in B ( ) , by proving that the range of δ A , B J is orthogonal to ker δ A , B J .

A detailed study of range-kernel orthogonality for generalized derivation δ A , B has received much attention in recent years and has been carried out in a large number of studies [3,5,7, 8,9,10, 11,12,13] and are based on the following result.

Theorem 2

Let A , B be operators in B ( ) . If δ A , B is Fuglede, then the range of δ A , B (resp. the range of δ A , B C p ) is orthogonal to the kernel of δ A , B (resp. the kernel of δ A , B C p ) for all 1 p .

D. Keckic [14] and A. Turnšek [15] extended Theorem 2 to the elementary operator E defined by E ( X ) = A X B C X D , where ( A , C ) and ( B , D ) are 2-tuples of commuting normal operators. Duggal [16] generalized the famous theorem to the case ( A , C ) and ( B , D ) are 2-tuples of commuting operators, where A , B are normal and C , D are hyponormal.

In this paper, our goal is to extend the previous theorem to non-normal operators including quasinormal, subnormal, and k -quasihyponormal operators.

In the following, we recall some definitions about the range-kernel weak orthogonality.

Definition 3

[4] If E : X Y and T : Y Z are bounded linear operators between Banach spaces and 0 < k 1 ,

(4) s ker T dist ( s , ran E ) s T k E ker T k ran E .

We say that T is weakly orthogonal to E , written T E , or equivalently

(5) ker T ran E k : 0 < k 1 : T k E .

For 0 < k 1 , we say that ( E , T ) has a 1 k -gap if T k E .

If T = E and k 1 , we shall call E w -orthogonal ( E E ) , consequently we get a 1 k -gap between the subspaces ker E and ran E , which corresponds to the “range-kernel weak-orthogonality” for an operator E . If k = 1 , we shall say that T is orthogonal to E , written T E , also if X = ( Y ) = Z and T = E we get a 1-gap between the subspaces ker E and ran E .

T is said to be a quasi-normal if [ T , T T ] = 0 , subnormal if there exist a Hilbert space K and a normal operator N B ( K ) such that N = T . Also, T is called hyponormal if [ T , T ] is a positive operator. Furthermore, we have the following proper inclusion

T normal T quasi-normal T subnormal T hyponormal .

A B ( X ) is said the Fuglede operator [13] if ker A ker A .

Recall that an n -tuple A = ( A 1 , A 2 , , A n ) B ( ) n is said commuting (resp. doubly commuting) if [ A i , A j ] = 0 (resp. [ A i , A j ] = 0 and [ A i , A j ] = 0 ) for all i , j = 1 , , n , i j . The n -tuple A is said to be normal if A is commuting and each A i ( i = 1 , , n ) is normal, and A is subnormal if A is the restriction of a normal n -tuple to a common invariant subspace. Clearly, every normal n -tuple is subnormal n -tuple. Any other notation or definition will be explained as and when required.

2 Preliminaries

We summarize the results given by D. Keckic [14], A. Turnšek [15], and B. P. Duggal [16] in the following theorem.

Theorem 4

[14,15,16] Let A , B be normal operators, C , D be hyponormal operators in B ( ) such that [ A , C ] = [ B , D ] = 0 and J = B ( ) or J = C p : 1 p , then

  1. If ker A ker C = { 0 } = ker B ker D , then for all X B ( ) such that E ˜ ( X ) , E ( X ) J

    S ker E J min { E ( X ) + S J , E ˜ ( X ) + S J } S J .

  2. If ker A ker C { 0 } or ker B ker D { 0 } , then there exists k verifying 0 < k < 1 such that

    X B ( ) , S ker E J : E ( X ) + S J k S J , where E ( X ) J .

  3. If J = C 2 ( ) with its inner product X , Y = tr ( Y X ) and E is defined on C 2 ( ) , then for all S ker E , we get

    E ( X ) + S 2 2 = E ( X ) 2 2 + S 2 2 ; E ˜ ( X ) + S 2 2 = E ˜ ( X ) 2 2 + S 2 2 .

We recall some useful results which are important in the sequel.

Lemma 5

[13] Let A , B be commuting operators in B ( ) with no trivial kernel.

  1. Let ξ be the elementary Fuglede operator defined by ξ ( X ) = A X A B X B , then

    1. if ker A ker B = { 0 } , then ker A reduces A and ker B reduces B .

    2. if [ A , B ] = 0 and ker A ker B { 0 } , then ker A ker B reduces A and B .

  2. Let A B ( ) , B B ( K ) , and E ( X ) = A X B ; X B ( K , ) , then E is the Fuglede operator if and only if ker A reduces A and ker B reduces B .

Lemma 6

[9] Let T be an operator represented by block matrix as T = ( T i , j ) i , j = 1 n .

  1. If T B ( ) , then 1 n 2 i , j T i , j 2 T 2 i , j T i , j 2

  2. If T C p ( T ) ; 1 p < , then

    1 n p 2 T p p i , j T i , j p p T p p for all 2 p < , T p p i , j T i , j p p 1 n p 2 T p p for all 1 p 2 .

3 Main results

Proposition 7

Let , K be Hilbert spaces and A B ( ) , B B ( K ) , and E B ( B ( K , ) ) such that E ( X ) = A X B . If E is the Fuglede operator, then E is w -orthogonal, E E ˜ , and the inequality

(6) min { E ( X ) + S J , E ˜ ( X ) + S J } S J

holds if

  1. J = B ( K , ) with k = 1 / 2 or

  2. J = C p ( K , ) with k = 1 2 2 p p , if 1 p 2 and k = 1 2 p 2 p , if 2 p < .

Proof

If A and B are injective operators, then E is injective. So there is nothing to prove.

Suppose that A or B is the non-injective operator. From Lemma 5(2) and with respect to the decompositions:

= ( ker A ) ker A , K = ( ker B ) ker B

we obtain A = A 1 A ; B = B 1 0 . Let X = ( X i , j ) i , j = 1 , 2 : K . Then

E ( X ) = A 1 X 11 B 1 0 .

From the injectivity of A 1 and B 1 it yields that any S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 in ker E can be written as

S = 0 S 12 S 21 S 22 ,

where the operators S 12 , S 21 , and S 22 are arbitrary.

Hence, for all S ker E and all X B ( K , ) , by Lemma 5(2), we have

min { E ( X ) + S , E ˜ ( X ) + S } = A 1 X 11 B 1 S 12 S 21 S 22 1 2 ( S 12 2 + S 21 2 + S 22 2 ) 1 / 2 1 2 S .

Also, for all S ker E C p ( K , ) and all X B ( K , ) such that E ( X ) C p ( K , ) , we get

  1. if 1 p 2 , then

    min { E ( X ) + S p , E ˜ ( X ) + S p } = A 1 X 11 B 1 S 12 S 21 S 22 p 1 2 2 p p S 12 p p + S 21 p p + S 22 p p 1 / p 1 2 2 p p S p .

  2. if 2 p < , then

    min { E ( X ) + S p , E ˜ ( X ) + S p } = A 1 X 11 B 1 S 12 S 21 S 22 p 1 2 p 2 p S 12 p p + S 21 p p + S 22 p p 1 / p 1 2 p 2 p S p .

Using Lemma 5(2), we get a simple form of the previous result as follows.

Corollary 8

If ker A reduces A and ker B reduces B , then E is w -orthogonal, E E ˜ and satisfies the relation (6).

In the sequel ξ denotes the elementary operator defined by

ξ ( X ) = A X A B X B

from B ( ) to J , where A and B are operators in B ( ) and J = B ( ) or J = C p ( ) ; 1 p < .

Lemma 9

Let Δ be the elementary operator defined on B ( ) by Δ ( X ) = A X B X , where A , B B ( ) . If Δ is a Fuglede operator, then Δ is orthogonal and Δ Δ ˜ .

Proof

The proof is the same as the one in Theorem 4.□

Proposition 10

Let A , B be doubly commuting operators in B ( ) and

ξ : B ( ) C p ( ) ; ( 1 p , p 2 ) .

If ker A reduces A , ker B reduces B and ξ orthogonal, then ker A ker B = { 0 } .

Proof

We consider the following three cases:

  1. Let us suppose that N = ker A ker B { 0 } .

  2. If ker A ker B and ker B ker A , then with respect to the decomposition

    = ( ker B ) ( ker B N ) N

    and from the hypothesis it yields

    A = A 1 A 2 0 , B = B 1 0 , and S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , , 3 ,

    where A 2 is an injective operator. Hence,

    S ker ξ A 1 S 11 A 1 = B 1 S 11 B 1 ; A 1 S 12 A 2 = A 2 S 21 A 1 = 0 ; S 22 = 0

    and the other entries are arbitrary. Choosing X and S as follows:

    X = 0 ( e e ) 0 , S = 0 0 R R C ,

    where e is a non-zero vector in , R is an operator of rank one, and C is a self-adjoint operator of rank one. Then

    ξ ( X ) + S = 0 A 2 e A 2 e R R C .

    Applying Lemma (2.4) [15], we get

    ξ ( X ) + S p < 0 R R C p = S p ( p 2 ) .

  3. If ker A ker B and ker A ker B , we proceed similarly as in the first case, it suffices to replace A by B and B by A in the preceding argument.

  4. If ker A = ker B , then with respect to the decomposition

    = ( ker B ) ker B ,

    we get

    A = A 1 0 , B = B 1 0 .

    Letting S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , , 3 . Then

    S ker ξ A 1 S 11 A 1 = B 1 S 11 B 1 ,

    and the other entries are arbitrary. Choosing X and S as

    X = ( e e ) 0 , S = 0 R R C ,

    where e and R are as in (i). Then

    ξ ( X ) + S = A 1 e A 1 e B 1 e B 1 e R R C .

    If A 1 e A 1 e = B 1 e B 1 e for all e , then it follows from this fact and the injectivity of A 1 and B 1 that A 1 = α B 1 with α = 1 and hence ξ = 0 , which is a contradiction with the assumption ξ 0 . We use Lemma (2.4) [15] to complete the proof for p { 1 , 2 } .

  5. In the case p = 1 , let us assume that A 1 e A 1 e B 1 e B 1 e is an operator of rank 2 and has eigenvalues λ 1 , λ 2 with λ 1 = λ 2 for all e , then we can check that

    λ 1 = λ 2 A 1 e = B 1 e and A 1 e , B 1 e = 0 e .

    If ker B ker B , then by the injectivity of B 1 , it follows that A 1 = 0 , which is a contradiction since A 0 .

  6. If ker B ker B , with respect to the decomposition

    = ( ker B 1 ) ker B 1 ker B

    we get

    A = A 1 A 2 0 , B = B 1 B 2 0 0 0 , and S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , , 3 .

    Since A 1 is injective and S ker ξ , we obtain

    A 1 S 11 A 1 = B 1 S 11 B 1 ; S 12 = S 21 = S 22 = 0

    and the other entries are arbitrary.

  7. We rewrite S on the following decomposition

    = ( ker B 1 ) ker B ker B 1

    and choose S 11 = S 23 = S 32 = 0 , S 13 = R , S 31 = R , S 34 = C , and X = e e 0 ( R , C , e are as in (i)). Then

    ξ ( X ) + S = A 1 e A 1 e B 1 e B 1 e R R C 0 .

    If A 1 e A 1 e B 1 e B 1 e is an operator of rank two and has eigenvalues λ 1 , λ 2 with λ 1 = λ 2 for all e , then from the previous argument we conclude that A 1 = 0 . On the other hand, if B 2 0 , then from [ A , B ] = 0 it follows that A 2 = 0 , also a contradiction with the fact that A 0 .

  8. If B 2 = 0 ( ker B reduces B ), then B = B 1 0 , A = 0 A 2 0 ( A 2 is injective), and S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , , 3 . Hence, it follows from A S A = B S B that

    S = 0 S 12 S 13 S 21 0 S 23 S 31 S 32 S 33

    and the other entries are arbitrary.

  9. To conclude the proof we can argue similarly as in the first case (i).□

Corollary 11

Let ( A 1 , A 2 ) , ( B 1 , B 2 ) be 2-tuples of doubly commuting operators in B ( ) and E : B ( ) C p ( ) ; ( 1 p , p 2 ) be the elementary operator defined by E ( X ) = A 1 X B 1 A 2 X B 2 such that ker A 1 , ker A 2 , ker B 1 , and ker B 2 reduce A 1 , A 2 , B 1 , and B 2 , respectively. If E is orthogonal, then

ker A 1 ker A 2 = { 0 } = ker B 1 ker B 2 .

Proof

Consider the space and the following decompositions

A = A 1 B 1 , B = A 2 B 2 , and Y = 0 X 0 0 .

Then, for all X B ( ) , we have A Y A B Y B = A 1 X B 1 A 2 X B 2 , ker A = ker A 1 ker B 1 , and ker B = ker A 2 ker B 2 . Hence,

ker A 1 ker A 2 = { 0 } = ker B 1 ker B 2 ker A ker B = { 0 } .

So to achieve the proof, it suffices to apply the previous proposition.□

Theorem 12

Let A 1 , A 2 , N 1 , and N 2 be operators in B ( ) such that ( N 1 , N 2 ) is 2-tuple normal and [ A 1 , N 1 ] = [ A 2 , N 2 ] = 0 . Let E ( X ) = A 1 X A 2 N 1 X N 2 such that E ( X ) , E ˜ ( X ) J . If E is the Fuglede operator, then E is w -orthogonal and E E ˜ . Furthermore,

  1. If J = C p ( ) : ( 1 p < , p 2 ) , then E is orthogonal if and only if ker A 1 ker N 1 = { 0 } = ker A 2 ker N 2 ;

  2. If ker A 1 ker N 1 = { 0 } = ker A 2 ker N 2 , then E is orthogonal and E E ˜ ;

  3. If ker A 1 ker N 1 { 0 } or ker A 2 ker N 2 0 , then for all X B ( ) and all S ker E J ,

    min { E ( X ) + S J , E ˜ ( X ) + S J } k S J ,

    where

    1. J = B ( ) : k = 1 2 n ;

    2. J = C p ( ) : k = 1 2 4 2 p p , if 1 p 2 and k = 1 2 2 p 4 p , if 2 p < .

Proof

  1. The implication ( ) follows from Corollary 8.

  2. Let ξ : B ( ) J be the elementary operator defined by ξ ( X ) = A X A N X N , where A , N B ( ) , N is normal with [ A , N ] = 0 . Assume that ξ is the Fuglede operator.

  3. Suppose that N is invertible and set D = N 1 A . ξ is Fuglede implies that ξ D is Fuglede, where ξ D is the elementary operator induced by D . By Lemma 2.4 [16], we have

    ξ ( X ) + S J = A X A N X N + S J = D ( N X N ) D N X N + S J S J .

    Similarly, it can be shown that ξ ˜ ( X ) + S J S J for any operator S ( ker ξ ) J .

  4. Suppose that N is injective, set Δ n = { λ C : λ 1 n ; n N } and μ ( Δ n ) denotes the corresponding spectral projection, where P n = I μ ( Δ n ) converges strongly to I .

  5. From [ A , N ] = 0 and by Fuglede-Putnam’s theorem it follows that [ A , N ] = 0 and therefore P n reduces both A and N . Let

    = P n ( I P n ) ,

    then A = A 1 n A 2 n ; N = N 1 n N 2 n and P n = I 0 , where N 1 n is invertible. Hence,

    P n ( ξ ( X ) + S ) P n = [ A 1 n X 11 A 1 n N 1 n X 11 N 1 n + S 11 ] 0

    for all X = ( X i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 B ( ) and S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 ker ξ implying

    ξ ( X ) + S J P n ( ξ ( X ) + S ) P n J = A 1 n X 11 A 1 n N 1 n X 11 N 1 n + S 11 J S 11 J .

    Since P n ( ξ ( X ) + S ) P n = [ A 1 n X 11 A 1 n N 1 n X 11 N 1 n + S 11 ] 0 , then

    ξ ( X ) + S J P n ( ξ ( X ) + S ) P n J = A 1 n X 11 A 1 n N 1 n X 11 N 1 n + S 11 J S 11 J .

    On the other hand, for all positive integer n , we have

    S 11 J = P n S P n min { ξ ( X ) + S J , ξ ( X ) + S J } <

    and thus sup n P n S P n < for all S ker ξ J and X B ( ) . It follows by Lemma 3 [14] that

    min { ξ ( X ) + S J , ξ ˜ ( X ) + S J } S J .

  6. Suppose that N is an arbitrary normal operator.

  7. If ker A ker N = { 0 } , then may be decomposed as

    = [ ( ker N ) ker A ] ker A ker N .

    Since ξ is Fuglede and by Lemma 5(1.(i)), we have ker A reduces A , A = A 11 0 A 22 and N = N 11 N 22 0 .

  8. For X = ( X i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 , 3 B ( ) , set ξ 1 ( X 11 ) = A 11 X 11 A 11 N 11 X 11 N 11 and S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 , 3 ker ξ , then

    ξ 1 ( S 11 ) = 0 and A 11 S 13 A 22 = A 22 S 31 A 11 = A 22 S 33 A 22 = 0 ,

    N 11 S 12 N 22 = N 22 S 21 N 11 = N 22 S 22 N 22 = 0 .

    Since ξ is Fuglede, then S ker ξ ˜ and

    (7) ξ 1 ( S 11 ) = 0 and A 11 S 13 A 22 = A 22 S 31 A 11 = A 22 S 33 A 22 = 0 ,

    N 11 S 12 N 22 = N 22 S 21 N 11 = N 22 S 22 N 22 = 0 .

    Since N 11 , N 22 , A 11 , and A 22 are injective, we get from (ii) that ξ 1 is orthogonal, ξ 1 ξ 1 ˜ and S 13 = S 31 = S 33 = S 12 = S 22 = S 21 = 0 and any operator S ker ξ has the form

    S = S 11 0 0 0 0 S 23 0 S 32 0 ,

    where S 23 and S 32 are arbitrary.

  9. Let S 23 = U 23 S 23 , S 32 = U 32 S 32 be the polar decompositions of S 23 and S 32 , respectively, let V be the operator defined by

    V = I 0 U 32 U 23 0 .

    Then

    ξ ( X ) + S J V ( ξ ( X ) + S ) J = ξ 1 ( X 11 ) + S 11 S 32 S 23 .

    Applying Lemma 6, we get

    1. if J = B ( ) :

      ξ ( X ) + S max { ξ 1 ( X 11 ) + S 11 , S 32 , S 23 } max { S 11 , S 32 , S 23 } = S .

    2. if J = C p ( ) ; ( 1 p < ) :

      ξ ( X ) + S p ( ξ 1 ( X 11 ) + S 11 p p + S 32 p p + S 23 p p ) 1 / p ( S 11 p p + S 32 p p + S 23 p p ) 1 / p = S p .

    By the same method, we have that ξ ξ ˜ .

  10. If M = ker A ker N { 0 } and is decomposed as

    = ( ker N ) [ ker N M ] M ,

    then by Lemma 5(ii) and the fact that ξ is Fuglede, it follows that M reduces A , and hence

    A = A 11 A 22 0 , N = N 11 0 .

    For X = ( X i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 , 3 , we set ξ 1 ( X ) = A 11 X 11 A 11 N 11 X 11 N 11 and let S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 , 3 ker ξ . From the injectivity of A 11 and A 22 , we obtain

    ξ 1 ( S 11 ) = 0 and S 12 = S 21 = S 22 = 0 .

    By simple computation, we get

    ξ ( X ) + S J = ξ 1 ( X 11 ) + S 11 S 13 S 23 S 31 S 32 S 33 J .

Applying Lemma 6 yields
  1. for J = B ( ) :

    ξ ( X ) + S 2 1 2 2 ( ξ 1 ( X 11 + S 11 ) 2 + S 13 2 + S 23 2 + S 32 2 + S 13 2 + S 33 2 ) 1 2 4 S 2 .

  2. for J = C p ( ) ; 1 p 2 :

    ξ ( X ) + S p p 1 2 2 p ξ 1 ( X 11 + S 11 ) p p + S 13 p p + S 23 p p + S 32 p p + S 13 p p + S 33 p p 1 2 4 2 p S p p .

  3. for J = C p ( ) ; 2 p < :

    ξ ( X ) + S p p 1 2 2 p ξ 1 ( X 11 + S 11 ) p p + S 13 p p + S 23 p p + S 32 p p + S 13 p p + S 33 p p 1 2 2 p 4 S p p .

    Similarly,

    1. for J = B ( ) :

      ξ ˜ ( X ) + S 1 2 2 S .

    2. for J = C p ( ) ; 1 p 2 :

      ξ ˜ ( X ) + S p 1 2 4 2 p p S p .

    3. for J = C p ( ) ; 2 p < :

      ξ ˜ ( X ) + S p 1 2 2 p 4 p S p .

    Let us now finish the proof for the elementary operator E ( X ) = A 1 X A 2 N 1 X N 2 . Consider the space and define the following operators on B ( ) as

    N = N 1 N 2 ; A = A 1 A 2 , and Z = 0 X 0 0 .

    It is clear that N is normal operator and  [ A 1 , N 1 ] = [ A 2 , N 2 ] = 0 imply [ A , N ] = 0 and E ( Z ) = A Z A N Z N .

  4. Applying the preceding result, the proof is complete.□

Let A , B B ( ) and Ω be a set in B ( ) 2 defined by ( A , B ) Ω if and only if Δ ( X ) = A N X B M X is the Fuglede operator for any normal N , M satisfying [ N , A ] = [ M , B ] = 0 .

It follows from the definition that Δ is Fuglede and Ω since ( I , I ) Ω .

It is shown in [13] that if ( A , B ) Ω , then the elementary operator E defined by E ( X ) = N X M A X B is Fuglede for any normal operators N and M in B ( ) . So as a consequence of the previous theorem, we get the following corollaries.

Corollary 13

Let A , B B ( ) and N , M be arbitrary normal operators in B ( ) such that [ N , A ] = [ M , B ] = 0 and E be the elementary operator defined by E ( X ) = N X M A X B for all X B ( ) .

If ( A , B ) Ω , then E is w -orthogonal and E E ˜ . Furthermore, E and E ˜ verify assertions (i), (ii), and (iii) in Theorem 12.

Lemma 14

[13] Let A , B B ( ) and N , M be normal operators in B ( ) such that [ N , A ] = [ M , B ] = 0 , then ( A , B ) Ω in each of the following cases:

  1. A and B are hyponormal operators;

  2. A is k -quasihyponormal and B is injective k -quasihyponormal operator.

Corollary 15

If ( A 1 , A 2 ) , ( B 1 , B 2 ) are 2-tuples of commuting operators in B ( ) such that A 1 , B 1 are normal operators and E ( X ) = A 1 X B 1 A 2 X B 2 , then E is w -orthogonal and E E ˜ . Furthermore, E and E ˜ satisfy assertions (i), (ii), and (iii) cited in Theorem 12, in each of the following cases:

  1. A 1 and B 1 are hyponormal operators;

  2. A 1 is k -quasihyponormal and B 1 is injective k -quasihyponormal operator.

In the next theorem, we give a positive answer to a question raised by P. B. Duggal [16]: Is Theorem 2 still true if the hypothesis is related to A and B being subnormal?

Theorem 16

If A and B are 2-tuples of commuting subnormal operators in [ B ( ) ] 2 such that A = ( A 1 , A 2 ) , B = ( B 1 , B 2 ) , and E ( X ) = A 1 X B 1 A 2 X B 2 , then E is w -orthogonal and E E ˜ .

Proof

From the definition of subnormality of 2-tuple operator, we have A is the restriction of a 2-tuple normal N = ( N 1 , N 2 ) to a common invariant subspace and B is the restriction of a 2-tuple normal M = ( M 1 , M 2 ) to a common invariant subspace equivalently to A i = N i ; B i = M i , i = 1 , 2 with N i , M i are normal operators on a Hilbert space K and [ N 1 , N 2 ] = [ M 1 , M 2 ] = 0 . If S ker E , then for all X B ( ) , we have

N 1 X ˜ M 1 N 2 X ˜ M 2 + S ˜ = E ( X ) + S 0 0 0 ,

where X ˜ = X 0 and S ˜ = S 0 . Hence,

N 1 X ˜ M 1 N 2 X ˜ M 2 + S ˜ J = E ( X ) + S J .

Since N i , M i : i = 1 , 2 are normal, we get the w -orthogonality of E . With similar argument, E E ˜ follows.□

Corollary 17

If ( A 1 , A 2 ) and B = ( B 1 , B 2 ) are 2-tuples of commuting operators in [ B ( ) ] 2 such that [ A i , A 1 A 1 + A 2 A 2 ] = [ B i , B 1 B 1 + B 2 B 2 ] = 0 ; i = 1 , 2 and E ( X ) = A 1 X B 1 A 2 X B 2 , then E is w -orthogonal and E E ˜ .

Proof

By assumption, A and B are spherically quasi-normal commuting 2-tuples (see definition [17]) and also by [17], A and B are subnormal 2-tuples. So the desired result follows from Theorem 16.□

Theorem 18

Let ( A 1 , A 2 ) , ( B 1 , B 2 ) be 2-tuples of doubly commuting operators in B ( ) and E be the elementary operator defined by E ( X ) = A 1 X B 1 A 2 X B 2 such that E ( X ) , E ˜ ( X ) J , A 1 , B 1 are quasi-normal operators and A 2 , B 2 are k -quasihyponormal operators ( k 1 ) with ker A 2 ker A 2 and ker B 2 ker B 2 . Then E is w -orthogonal and E E ˜ . Furthermore,

  1. If J = C p ( ) ; ( 1 p < , p 2 ) , then

    E is orthogonal if and only if ker A 1 ker N 1 = ker A 2 ker N 2 = { 0 } ;

  2. If ker A 1 ker N 1 = { 0 } = ker A 2 ker N 2 , then E is orthogonal and E E ˜ ;

  3. If ker A 1 ker A 2 0 or ker B 1 ker B 2 { 0 } , then for all X B ( ) and all S ker E J ,

    min { E ( X ) + S J , E ˜ ( X ) + S J } k S J .

    1. For J = B ( ) , k = 1 6 ;

    2. For J = C p ( ) , k = 1 6 2 p p , if 1 p 2 ;

    3. For J = C p ( ) , k = 1 6 p 2 p , if 2 p < .

Proof

Consider the following decompositions

= 1 = ( ker A 2 ) ker A 2 , = 2 = ( ker B 2 ) ker B 2 .

Then

A 2 = C 1 0 , B 2 = C 2 0 ,

where C 1 , C 2 are injective k -quasihyponormal and by hypothesis, we get

A 1 = T 1 T 2 , B 1 = R 1 R 2

with T 1 , T 2 , R 1 , and R 2 are quasinormal operators and ( T 1 , C 1 ) , ( R 1 , C 2 ) are 2-tuples of doubly commuting operators.

Since ker T 1 reduces T 1 (resp. ker R 1 reduces R 1 ) and by commutativity, we have that

T 1 = A 11 0 , R 1 = B 11 0 , C 1 = A 21 A 22 , C 2 = B 21 B 22

with respect to the following decompositions

( ker A 2 ) = ( ker T 1 ) ker T 1 , ( ker B 2 ) = ( ker R 1 ) ker R 1 ,

where A 11 and B 11 are injective quasinormal operators,  A 21 , A 22 , B 21 , and B 22 are injective k -quasihyponormal. We set A 11 = U A 11 and B 11 = V B 11 = B 11 V . Then it follows from the injectivity of A 11 and B 11 that U and V are isometry operators and by [ T 1 , C 1 ] = [ T 1 , C 1 ] = 0 , we get that

(8) A 11 , A 21 = [ A 11 , A 21 ] = 0 .

Then [ A 11 A 11 , A 21 ] = [ A 11 A 11 , A 21 ] = 0 and [ A 11 , A 21 ] = [ A 11 , A 21 ] = 0 . Hence, [ U , A 21 ] = [ U , A 21 ] = 0 . Similarly, we obtain that [ V , B 21 ] = [ V , B 21 ] = 0 , and ( U A 21 ) is k -quasihyponormal. Indeed,

( A 21 U ) k [ U A 21 , A 21 U ] A 21 k U k = ( A 21 ) k + 1 U k [ U , U ] U k A 21 k + 1 + U k U A 21 k [ A 21 , A 21 ] A 21 k U U k = U U k A 21 k [ A 21 , A 21 ] A 21 k U U k 0 .

Similarly, we get ( V B 21 ) is an injective k -quasihyponormal.

Let X , S B ( ) : X = ( X i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 , 3 and S = ( S i j ) i , j = 1 , 2 , 3 . If S ker E , then

(9) A 11 S 11 B 11 = A 21 S 11 B 21 ,

(10) A 11 S 13 R 2 = T 2 S 31 B 11 = T 2 S 33 R 2 = 0 ,

(11) A 21 S 12 B 22 = A 22 S 21 B 21 = A 22 S 22 B 22 = 0 .

And

U ( A 11 X 11 B 11 A 21 X 11 B 21 + S 11 ) V = A 11 X 11 B 11 U A 21 X 11 B 21 V + U S 11 V .

We derive from 8 that

A 11 U S 11 V B 11 = U A 21 U S 11 V B 21 V .

Applying Corollary 8,

A 11 X 11 B 11 A 21 X 11 B 21 + S 11 U ( A 11 X 11 B 11 A 21 X 11 B 21 + S 11 ) V U S 11 V .

from the injectivity of A 11 and its polar decomposition, we have

( ker T 1 ) = ( ker A 11 ) = ( ker U ) ; ker A 11 ¯ = ran U

and U : ( ker U ) ran U is unitary. Taking the following decompositions yields

( ker U ) = ran U ( ran U ) ; ( ker V ) = ran V ¯ ( ran V ) .

Then

A 11 = A 11 1 γ 0 0 , B 11 = B 11 1 0 ζ 0 , S 11 = S 11 1 S 11 2 S 11 3 S 11 4 , U = U 1 0 : ( ker U ) ran U ( ran U ) , V = V 1 0 : ran V ¯ ( ran V ) ( ker V ) .

From the commutativity, we obtain

A 21 = A 21 1 A 21 2 ; B 21 = B 21 1 B 21 2 .

By simple computation, we get

U S 11 V = U 1 S 11 1 V 1 , A 21 1 S 11 2 B 21 2 = A 21 2 S 11 3 B 21 1 = A 21 2 S 11 4 B 21 2 = 0 .

From the injectivity of A 21 i and B 21 i : i = 1 , 2 , we derive that

S 11 2 = S 11 3 = S 11 4 = 0 .

The injectivity of A 21 , B 22 , A 22 , B 21 , A 11 , and B 11 in the equalities 10 and 11 implies that

S 12 = S 21 = S 22 = 0 , S 13 R 2 = T 2 S 31 = T 2 S 33 R 2 = 0 .

Setting E 11 ( X 11 ) = A 11 X 11 B 11 A 21 X 11 B 21 .

  1. If ker A 1 ker A 2 = { 0 } = ker B 1 ker B 2 , then S 13 = S 33 = S 31 = 0 and therefore any operator S ker E has the form

    S = S 11 0 0 0 0 S 23 0 S 32 0 ,

    where S 23 and S 32 are arbitrary with

    S 11 J = S 11 1 J = U 1 S 11 1 V 1 J = U S 11 V J

    and

    E ( X ) + S J = E 11 ( X 11 ) + S 11 S 23 S 32 J .

    Let S 23 = U 23 S 23 , S 32 = S 32 S 32 be the polar decomposition of S 23 and S 32 , respectively, and set the operator V = I 0 U 32 U 23 0 . Then

    E ( X ) + S J V ( E ( X ) + S ) J E 11 ( X 11 ) + S 11 S 32 S 23 J .

    Applying Lemma 5, we get

    1. J = B ( ) :

      E ( X ) + S max { E ( X 11 ) + S 11 , S 32 , S 23 } max { S 11 , S 32 , S 23 } = S .

    2. J = C p ( ) : ( 1 p < )

      E ( X ) + S p ( E ( X 11 ) + S 11 p p + S 32 p p + S 23 p p ) 1 / p ( S 11 p p + S 32 p p + S 23 p p ) 1 / p = S p p .

  2. If ker A 1 ker A 2 { 0 } or ker B 1 ker B 2 { 0 } , then any operator S ker E has the form

    S = S 11 0 S 13 0 0 S 23 S 13 S 32 S 33 ,

    where S 23 and S 32 are arbitrary. By simple calculation, we have

    E ( X ) + S J = E 11 ( X 11 ) + S 11 A 11 X 13 R 2 + S 13 S 23 T 2 X 31 B 11 + S 31 S 32 T 2 X 33 R 2 + S 33 J .

    It is well known that the kernel of a quasinormal operator is a reduced subspace, then by application of Corollary 8, we obtain

    A 11 X 13 R 2 + S 13 J k S 13 J T 2 X 31 B 11 + S 31 J k S 31 J T 2 X 33 R 2 + S 33 J k S 33 J .

    Therefore, by Lemma 6, we get

    1. J = B ( ) ;

      E ( X ) + S 2 1 3 2 E 11 ( X 11 ) + S 11 2 + 1 2 2 [ S 32 2 + S 23 2 + S 13 2 + S 31 2 + S 33 2 ] 1 6 2 S 2 .

    2. J = C p ( ) : ( 2 p < )

      E ( X ) + S p p 1 3 p 2 S 11 p p + 1 2 p 2 [ S 32 p p + S 23 p p + S 13 p p + S 31 p p + S 33 p p ] 1 2 p 2 1 3 p 2 S p p = 1 6 p 2 S p p .

    3. J = C p ( ) : ( 1 p 2 ) :

      E ( X ) + S p p 1 3 2 p S 11 p p + 1 2 2 p [ S 32 p p + S 23 p p + S 13 p p + S 31 p p + S 33 p p ] 1 2 2 p 1 3 2 p S p p = 1 6 p 2 S p p .

4 Conclusion

D. Keckic [14] and A. Turnšek [15] extended Theorem 2 to the elementary operator E defined by E ( X ) = A X B C X D , where ( A , C ) and ( B , D ) are 2-tuples of commuting normal operators. Duggal [16] generalized the famous theorem to the case ( A , C ) and ( B , D ) are 2-tuples of commuting operators, where A , B are normal and C , D * are hyponormal.

In this paper, Theorem 2 was extended to non-normal operators including quasinormal, subnormal, and k -quasihyponormal operators. The main results are Theorems 12 and 18, both of considerable value in the relevant area of research, also the paper includes new ideas, along with a few new tools and techniques, and likely to attract considerable attention from researchers in operator theory and Banach space theory.



Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their cordial gratitude to the referee for valuable comments which improved the paper. The authors would also like to add their great appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work through General Project Research, Grant number (GPR/247/42).

  1. Research funding: This research was funded through General Project Research, Grant number (GPR/247/42).

  2. Author contributions: A. Bachir, A. Segres, and Nawal A. Sayyaf contributed to the design and implementation of the research, to the analysis of the results, and to the writing of the manuscript.

  3. Conflict of interest: Authors state no conflict of interest.

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Received: 2019-12-03
Revised: 2020-10-11
Accepted: 2020-10-12
Published Online: 2021-03-30

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