ALGEBRAIC SPECTRAL SUBSPACES OF GENERALIZED SCALAR OPERATORS

Algebraic spectral subspaces and admissible operators were introduced by K. B. Laursen and M. M. Neumann in 1988 [L88], [N]. These concepts are useful in automatic continuity problems of intertwining linear operators on Banach spaces. In this paper we characterize the algebraic spectral subspaces of generalized scalar operators. From this characterization we show that generalized scalar operators are admissible. Also we show that doubly power bounded operators are generalized scalar. And using the spectral capacity we show that a generalized scalar operator is decomposable. Then we give an example of an operator which is not admissible but decomposable.