Journal of Operator Theory
Volume 38, Issue 2, Fall 1997 pp. 379-389.
Essentially quasinilpotent elements with respect to arbitrary norm closed two-sided ideals in von Neumann algebrasAuthors: Anton Stroh (1) and Laszlo Zsido (2)
Author institution: (1) Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria, 0002 Pretoria, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
(2) Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Roma “Tor Vergataâ€, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, ITALY
Summary: In this paper we prove that a part of the Riesz decomposition theory for compact operators holds in maximal generality in the realm of von Neumann algebras. More precisely, if an element x of a von Neumann algebra M is essentially quasinilpotent with respect to an arbitrary norm closed two-sided ideal of M, then the supremum (in the projection lattice of M) of the kernel projections of all positive integer powers of 1 – x belongs to the ideal. It seems to be an interesting question, whether the above statement holds in arbitrary AW*-algebras.
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