The iterated Aluthge Transforms of compact operators

Abstract

Let $T$ be a bounded linear operator on a Hilbert space. Then the Aluthge transform $\hat{I}”T$ and the sequence $(\hat{I}{”}^{n}T)$ of Aluthge iterates of $T$ are defined by \begin{align*} ΔT=|T|^{1/2}U|T|^{1/2},\,Δ^0T=T,\,Δ^nT=Δ(Δ^{n-1}T),\,n\in\mathbb{N}. \end{align*} We prove that $\hat{I}”$ is a continuous map on the space of all compact operators on a separable Hilbert space with respect to the norm topology and using this result we also prove that the sequence $(\hat{I}{”}^{n}T)$ converges in the norm topology to a normal compact operator for every compact operator $T$ on a separable Hilbert space. This gives an affirmative answer to two questions raised by Jung, Ko and Pearcy \cite{Pearcy2} for compact operators.

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