On (m, P)-expansive operators: products, perturbation by nilpotents, Drazin invertibility

Abstract A generalisation of m-expansive Hilbert space operators T ∈ B(ℋ) [18, 20] to Banach space operators T ∈ B(𝒳) is obtained by defining that a pair of operators A, B ∈ B(𝒳) is (m, P)-expansive for some operator P ∈ B(𝒳) if Δ A,Bm(P)= (I-LARB)m(P)=∑j=0m(-1)j(jm){\left( {I - {L_A}{R_B}} \right)^m}\left( P \right) = \sum\nolimits_{j = 0}^m {{{\left( { - 1} \right)}^j}\left( {_j^m} \right)}AjPBj≤0; LA(X) = AX and RB(X)=XB. Unlike m-isometric and m-left invertible operators, commuting products and perturbations by commuting nilpotents of (m, I)-expansive operators do not result in expansive operators: using elementary algebraic properties of the left and right multiplication operators, a sufficient condition is proved. For Drazin invertible A and B ∈ B(ℋ), with Drazin inverses Ad and Bd, a sufficient condition proving (Ad, Bd) ^ (A, B) is (m − 1, P)-isometric (resp., (m − 1, P)-contractive) for m even (resp., m odd) is given, and a Banach space analogue of this result is proved.