Some unsolved problems of unknown depth about operators on Hilbert space
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics
- Vol. 76 (1) , 67-76
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0308210500019491
Abstract
The paper presents a list of unsolved problems about operators on Hilbert space, accompanied by just enough definitions and general discussion to set the problems in a reasonable context. The subjects are: quasitriangular matrices, the resemblances between normal and Toeplitz operators, dilation theory, the algebra of shifts, some special invariant subspaces, the category (in the sense of Baire) of the set of non-cyclicoperators, non-commutative(i.e. operator) approximation theory, infinitary operators, and the possibility of attacking invariance problems by compactness or convexity arguments.Keywords
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