Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
The celebrated result of Lomonosov [6] on the existence of invariant subspaces for operators commuting with a compact operator have been generalized in different directions (for example see [2], [7], [8], [9]). The main result of [9] (see also [7]) is: If is a norm closed algebra of (bounded) operators on an infinite dimensional (complex) Banach space , if K is a nonzero compact operator on , and if then has a non-trivial (closed) invariant subspace. In [7], it is mentioned that the above result holds if instead of compactness for K we assume that K is a non-invertible injective operator with a non-zero eigenvalue belonging to the class of decomposable, hyponormal, or subspectral operators.