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Diagonals of nilpotent operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

C. K. Fong
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Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A1
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The purpose of the present note is to answer the following question of T. A. Gillespie,learned from G. J. Murphy [4]: for which sequences{an} of complex numbers does there exist a quasinilpotent operator Q on a (separable, infinite-dimensional, complex) Hilbert space H, which has{an} as a diagonal, that is (Qen,en)=n for some orthonormal basis{en} in H?

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1986

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