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The distance to upper triangular operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

S. C. Power
Affiliation:
University of Lancaster

Extract

We show how a generalization of a distance formula of W. Arveson(1) may be derived from an elementary but ingenious special case, due to S. Parrot(2), involving 2 × 2 matrices.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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