Self-adjointness conjecture for operators with positive real part and self-adjoint powers

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Let HH be a Hilbert space and let T∈B(H)T\in B(H), where B(H)B(H) denotes the bounded operators on HH. Suppose that the real part of TT is positive and that T3T^3 and T4T^4 are self-adjoint.

Self-adjointness conjecture. TT is self-adjoint.

This conjecture asks for a generalization of the preceding theorem, which establishes self-adjointness under positivity of the real part together with self-adjointness of T2T^2 and T3T^3. The status of the proposed (3,4)(3,4)-power generalization is not specified in the source.

References

Primary source

Salima Kebli and Mohammed Hichem Mortad, “On the reduction of powers of self-adjoint operators”, arXiv:2407.13861 (2024).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1908.09677, arXiv:1401.5917.

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