Cyprian Omukhwaya Sakwa

Kibabii University 1st International Conference; June 22-24,2016

Abstract

Aluthge introduced the concept of Aluthge transform T of an operator T on Hilbert space in 1990 in his study of p-hyponormal operators. Properties of the transform have since been investigated by several authors. Some elementary spectral and numerical range properties and related results of Aluthge transform have been obtained. For instance, Yuan Wu proved that the closure of the numerical range of Aluthge transform of the operator T is contained in that of T in 2002. In 2007, Guoxing Ji, Ni Liu and Ze Li together showed that the essential numerical range of Aluthge transform is contained in the essential numerical range of T: However, the properties of the Aluthge transform have not been exhaustively studied. For instance, the joint essential spectrum of Aluthge transform has not been studied. This paper will therefore introduce and study the joint essential spectrum of T and establish its properties. In particular, the study shows that the joint essential spectrum of e T coincides with the joint essential spectrum of an m-tuple of operators T= T1;…; Tm: We also show in this paper that the joint essential spectrum of T is contained in the joint essential numerical range of T. The results of this study will be helpful in the development of the research on numerical ranges and may also be applied by mathematicians in solving several problems in operator theory.

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