Rigidity of commutators and elementary operators on Calkin algebras

LetA=(A 1,...,A n ),B=(B 1,...,B n )eL(l p ) n be arbitraryn-tuples of bounded linear operators on (l p ), with 1<p<∞. The paper establishes strong rigidity properties of the corresponding elementary operators e a,b on the Calkin algebraC(l p )≡L(l p )/K(l p ); $$\varepsilon _{\alpha ,b} (s) = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {a_i sb_i } $$ , where quotient elements are denoted bys=S+K(l p ) forSeL(l p ). It is shown among other results that the kernel Ker(e a,b ) is a non-separable subspace ofC(l p ) whenever e a,b fails to be one-one, while the quotient $$C(\ell ^p )/\overline {\operatorname{Im} \left( {\varepsilon _{\alpha ,b} } \right)} $$ is non-separable whenever e a,b fails to be onto. These re…