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Connectedness of the Invertibles in Certain Nest Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kenneth R. Davidson
Affiliation:
Pure Mathematics Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, e-mail:[email protected]
John Lindsay
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0323, U.S.A. e-mail:[email protected]
David R. Pitts
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0323, U.S.A. e-mail:[email protected]
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Abstract

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We show that if is a nest with no isolated atoms of finite multiplicity, then the invertibles in are connected. The key technical ingredient is that in such nest algebras, every operator with zero atomic diagonal part factors through the non-atomic part of . In particular, these results apply for the Cantor nest.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1995

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