Adjoints and the image of the ball

Adjoints and the image of the ball
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 1189-1193 Request permission

A bounded operator between Hilbert spaces has an adjoint if and only if the image of the unit ball is located.

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