{ "id": "0903.3921", "version": "v2", "published": "2009-03-23T18:21:39.000Z", "updated": "2009-03-23T22:00:50.000Z", "title": "A hereditarily indecomposable L_\\infty-space that solves the scalar-plus-compact problem", "authors": [ "Spiros A Argyros", "Richard G Haydon" ], "categories": [ "math.FA" ], "abstract": "We construct a hereditarily indecomposable Banach space with dual isomorphic to $\\ell_1$. Every bounded linear operator on this space has the form $\\lambda I+K$ with $\\lambda$ a scalar and $K$ compact.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2009-03-23T22:00:50.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "46B45" ], "keywords": [ "scalar-plus-compact problem", "bounded linear operator", "hereditarily indecomposable banach space", "dual isomorphic" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2009arXiv0903.3921A" } } }