{"title":"Spectral Theory for Hilbert Space Operators","authors":"S. Chavan, G. Misra","doi":"10.1017/9781009023306.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023306.003","url":null,"abstract":"Index Let B be a unital Banach algebra and let G denote the group of invertible elements in B. Let G0 be the connected component of G containing the identity of G. Note that any connected component of G is open because all connected neighborhoods of its element are contained in it. It follows immediately that any connected component of G is closed in G, as well. In particular, G0 is open as well as closed subset of G. Example 1.3.9 Let X be a compact Hausdorff space. Consider the Banach algebra C(X) of continuous functions from X into C. Note that the group G of invertible elements in C(X) is given by G = { f ∈C(X) : f is nowhere vanishing on X}. Moreover, 1 is the identity for C(X). Let f ∈ C(X) belong to the connected component G0 of G containing 1. Since G0 is locally path-connected (G0 is open and C(X) is a vector space, therefore locally path-connected), there exists a collection { fλ}λ∈[0,1] of continuous functions in C(X) such that f0 = 1 and f1 = f . Define Γ : X × [0,1]→G by Γ(x,λ) = fλ(x), and note that Γ(x,0) = 1 and Γ(x,1) = f (x) for every x ∈ X. In other words, G0 consists of precisely those elements in G that are homotopic to 1. Recall that Fn(H) is the set of Fredholm operators in L(H) of index n. Lemma 1.3.4 Let G (H) be the group of invertible elements in Q(H). If G0(H) denotes the connected component of G (H) containing the identity element in G(H), then G (H) = {π(T ) : T ∈ F (H)} and G0(H) = {π(T ) : T ∈ F0(H)}, where π :L(H)→Q(H) is the Calkin map. Proof Since Fn(H) is a connected component of F (H) (see Corollary 1.3.3) and since π is an open map, G (H) is the union of clopen sets {π(T ) : T ∈ F0(H)} and {π(T ) : T ∈ F (H)F0(H)}. Moreover, this union is disjoint. Indeed, if S n ∈ Fn(H) and S m ∈ Fm(H), then π(S n) = π(S m) implies S n − S m is a compact operator. Since the Fredholm index is invariant under compact perturbations (Theorem 1.3.1), we have m = n in this case. Let B be a unital Banach algebra and let G denote the group of invertible elements in B. Let G0 be the connected component of G containing the identity of G. For f ,g ∈G0, we record the following observations: • Since Lg : G0→ gG0 given by Lg( f ) = g f is surjective and continuous, every coset of G0 is connected. • Since f g and f belongs to the connected subset fG0 of B, fG0 ∪G0 is connected and non-empty. In particular, fG0∪G0 ⊆G0, and hence, G0 is a subgroup. • For any h ∈G, hG0h−1 is a connected subset containing identity, and hence, hG0h−1 = G0. That is, G0 is normal. i i “BDFT ̇Book” — 2021/5/18 — 12:14 — page 31 — #43 i i i i i i Spectral Theory for Hilbert Space Operators 31 • The cosets of G0 are connected components of G. Since G0 is a clopen subset of G, the quotient G/G0 is a discrete group. The previous discussion forms the basis of the following definition. Definition 1.3.10 Let B be a unital Banach algebra. Let G denote the group of invertible elements in B and let G0 denote the connected component of G containing the identity of G. The abs","PeriodicalId":150570,"journal":{"name":"Notes on the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theorem","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115479539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ext(X) as a Semigroup with Identity","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781009023306.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023306.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150570,"journal":{"name":"Notes on the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theorem","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125174639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epilogue","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781009023306.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023306.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150570,"journal":{"name":"Notes on the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theorem","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115978619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications to Operator Theory","authors":"S. Janson","doi":"10.1017/CBO9780511526169.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511526169.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150570,"journal":{"name":"Notes on the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theorem","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129702305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determination of Ext(X) as a Group for Planar Sets","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781009023306.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023306.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150570,"journal":{"name":"Notes on the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theorem","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115351123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Splitting and the Mayer–Vietoris Sequence","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781009023306.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023306.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":150570,"journal":{"name":"Notes on the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore Theorem","volume":"43 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131118432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}