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Near Triangularizability Implies Triangularizability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Bamdad R. Yahaghi*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract

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In this paper we consider collections of compact operators on a real or complex Banach space including linear operators on finite-dimensional vector spaces. We show that such a collection is simultaneously triangularizable if and only if it is arbitrarily close to a simultaneously triangularizable collection of compact operators. As an application of these results we obtain an invariant subspace theorem for certain bounded operators. We further prove that in finite dimensions near reducibility implies reducibility whenever the ground field is $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2004

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