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Compact operators on Hilbert modules

Author(s): M. Anoussis; I. G. Todorov
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 257-261.
MSC (2000): Primary 46L05, 46H25; Secondary 47B07
Posted: June 23, 2004
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Abstract: We prove that an adjointable contraction acting on a countably generated Hilbert module over a separable unital C*-algebra is compact if and only if the set of its second contractive perturbations is separable.


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Additional Information:

M. Anoussis
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, 832 00 Karlovassi, Samos, Greece
Email: mano@aegean.gr

I. G. Todorov
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, 832 00 Karlovassi, Samos, Greece
Address at time of publication: Department of Pure Mathematics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7~1NN, Northern Ireland
Email: ivan@aegean.gr, i.todorov@qub.ac.uk

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07591-4
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07591-4
Keywords: Contractive perturbations, compact operators, Hilbert modules
Received by editor(s): February 6, 2002
Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 14, 2003 and October 13, 2003
Posted: June 23, 2004
Communicated by: David R. Larson
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society


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