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On operator commutators
The following conjecture is originally due to Kaplansky:(1) Suppose A and T are elements of a Banach algebra and suppose Q is the commutator of A and T,This conjecture is cited in a Hilbert space context by Halmos [l] and, more recently, by Putnam [2], again for Hilbert space.In this …