Author:
Jamison J. E.,Lin Pei-Kee
Abstract
Let X be a complex Banach space. For any bounded linear operator T on X, the (spatial) numerical range of T is denned as the setIf V(T) ⊆ R, then T is called hermitian. Vidav and Palmer (see Theorem 6 of [3, p. 78] proved that if the set {H + iK:H and K are hermitian} contains all operators, then X is a Hilbert space. It is natural to ask the following question.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)