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...

We extend the recent stability results of Ambrozie for Fredholm essential complexes to the semi-Fredholm case. Let X,Y be Banach spaces. By an operator we always mean a bounded linear operator. The set of all operators from X to Y will be denoted by L(X,Y ). Denote by N(T ) and R(T ) the kernel and range of an operator T ∈ L(X, Y ). Recall that an operator T : X → Y is called semi-Fredholm if i...

1.1 (Fredholm operators). Let X, Y be real Banach spaces and denote their dual spaces by X, Y . A bounded linear operator D : X → Y is called Fredholm if it has a closed image and if its kernel and cokernel (the quotient space Y/imD) are finite dimensional. Equivalently, there exists a bounded linear operator T : Y → X such that the operators TD− idX and DT − idY are compact. The Fredholm index...

Some basic facts about Fredholm indices are briefly reviewed, often used in connection with Toeplitz and pseudodifferential operators, and which may be relevant for operators associated to fractals. Let H be a complex infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert space, which is of course unique up to isomorphism. Let B(H) be the Banach algebra of bounded linear operators on H, and let C(H) be the clo...

Let H1 and H2 be Hilbert spaces and let B(H1,H2) be the space of bounded linear operators A : H1 → H2. An operator A ∈ B(H1,H2) is said to be Fredholm if first, the kernel ofA is finite-dimensional, and second the image ofA is closed and has finite codimension. An application of the open mapping theorem shows that the closedness requirement on the image is redundant. A well-known example of Fre...

Let A be a linear bounded operator in a Hilbert space H, N(A) and R(A) its null-space and range, and A∗ its adjoint. The operator A is called Fredholm iff dim N(A) = dim N(A∗) := n < ∞ and R(A) and R(A∗) are closed subspaces of H. A simple and short proof is given of the following known result: A is Fredholm iff A = B + F , where B is an isomorphism and F is a finite-rank operator. The proof co...

Let 7(S) denote the reduced minimum modulus of a linear operator S acting in a complex Banach space X, and let / denote the identity on X. In this paper it is shown that for a (not necessarily bounded) Fredholm operator T acting in X, the limit lim y^fy/rt exists and is equal to the supremum of all positive numbers S such that the dimension of the null space and the codimension of the range of ...

Let A be a bounded operator on a separable, infinite dimensional Hilbert space H. Moreover, assume that A is not in the set C + K(H) of operators expressible as a sum of a scalar multiple of identity and a compact operator. What is the smallest similarity invariant semigroup containing operator A? Equivalently, which operators can be expressed as products of operators, similar to A? A partial a...