Abstract
We present the author’s recent counterexample to the Halmos similarity problem (described above as Problem 0.3): there is a polynomially bounded operator on Hilbert space which is not similar to a contraction. We also include two related finite dimensional estimates related to n x n-matrices. For one of them, the estimate for polynomially bounded n x n-matrices, the sharp order of growth, when n tends to infinity, is not yet known.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):
- primary 47AO5
- 46LO5
- 43A65 secondary 47A20
- 47B 10
- 42B30
- 46E40
- 46L57
- 47C 15
- 47L20
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Pisier, G. (2001). 9. The Sz.-Nagy-Halmos similarity problem. In: Similarity Problems and Completely Bounded Maps. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44563-0_10
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