A note on the index of $B$-Fredholm operators

A Note on the Index of B-fredholm Operators

From Corollary 3.5 in [Berkani, M; Sarih, M.; Studia Math. 148 (2001), 251– 257] we know that if S, T are commuting B-Fredholm operators acting on a Banach space X, then ST is a B-Fredholm operator. In this note we show that in general we do not have ind(ST ) = ind(S) + ind(T ), contrarily to what has been announced in Theorem 3.2 in [Berkani, M; Proc. Amer.Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 1717–1723]. Ho...

Fredholm Operators and the Generalized Index

One of the most fundamental problems in mathematics is to solve linear equations of the form Tf = g, where T is a linear transformation, g is known, and f is some unknown quantity. The simplest example of this comes from elementary linear algebra, which deals with solutions to matrix-vector equations of the form Ax = b. More generally, if V,W are vector spaces (or, in particular, Hilbert or Ban...

Unbounded B-fredholm Operators on Hilbert Spaces

This paper is concerned with the study of a class of closed linear operators densely defined on a Hilbert space H and called B-Fredholm operators. We characterize a B-Fredholm operator as the direct sum of a Fredholm closed operator and a bounded nilpotent operator. The notion of an index of a B-Fredholm operator is introduced and a characterization of B-Fredholm operators with index 0 is given...

Fredholm Operators and the Family Index

The Fredholm index of a pair of commuting operators

This paper concerns Fredholm theory in several variables, and its applications to Hilbert spaces of analytic functions. One feature is the introduction of ideas from commutative algebra to operator theory. Specifically, we introduce a method to calculate the Fredholm index of a pair of commuting operators. To achieve this, we define and study the Hilbert space analogs of Samuel multiplicities i...