Invertibility properties of operator matrices on Hilbert spaces

TL;DR

This paper investigates the invertibility and Fredholm properties of upper triangular operator matrices on Hilbert spaces, providing necessary and sufficient conditions, correcting previous results, and extending methods to arbitrary matrix sizes.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive characterization of Fredholm and Weyl properties for operator matrices of any size, correcting and extending earlier findings.

Findings

Provides necessary and sufficient conditions for Fredholm and Weyl properties.

Corrects previous perturbation results in the literature.

Extends the space decomposition technique to arbitrary matrix dimensions.

Abstract

Denote by $T_n^d(A)$ an upper triangular operator matrix of dimension $n$ whose diagonal entries are given and the others are unknown. In this article we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for various types of Fredholm and Weyl completions of $T_n^d(A)$. As consequences, we get corrected perturbation results of Wu et al. (2020). In the special case $n=2$, we recover many already existing known results, and specially we correct results of Zhang et al. (2012). Finally, in the case of essential Fredholm invertibility, in the special case $n=2$ we obtain some results that seem new in the literature. Our method is based on the space decomposition technique, similarly to the work of Huang et al. (2019), but our approach extends to arbitrary dimension $n\geq2$.