Tusi Advances in Operator Theory Mathematical Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s43036-019-00016-x Group ORIGINAL PAPER Decomposition of the (n, )-pseudospectrum of an element of a Banach algebra Kousik Dhara1 · S. H. Kulkarni2 Received: 20 June 2019 / Accepted: 9 October 2019 © Tusi Mathematical Research Group (TMRG) 2019 Abstract Let A be a complex Banach algebra with unit. For an integer n ≥ 0 and >0, the (n,)-pseudospectrum of a ∈ A is defined by −2n 1/2n 1 Λ ,(A, a) := λ ∈ C : (λ − a) A (λ − a) ≥ . n is not invertible in or Let p ∈ A be a nontrivial idempotent. Then pAp ={pbp : b ∈ A} is a Banach subalgebra of A with unit p, known as a reduced Banach algebra. Suppose ap = pa. We study the relationship of Λn,(A, a) and Λn,(pAp, pa). We extend this by considering first a finite family, and then an at most countable family of idempotents satisfying some conditions. We establish that under suitable assumptions, the (n,)- pseudospectrum of a can be decomposed into the union of the (n,)-pseudospectra of some elements in reduced Banach algebras. Keywords Banach algebra · Spectrum · Pseudospectrum · (n,)-Pseudospectrum Mathematics Subject Classification 47A10 · 46H05 · 47A12 Communicated by Chi-Keung Ng. B Kousik Dhara
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[email protected] 1 Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, 8th Mile, Mysore Road, Bangalore 560059, India 2 Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Palakkad, Kerala 678557, India K. Dhara and S. H. Kulkarni 1 Introduction It is known that the spectrum of the direct sum of a finite number of operators on the direct sum of Hilbert spaces is the union of their spectra (Problem 98 of [9]).