Solvability of The Operator Equations $ AX-XB=C $ and $ AX-YB=C $
Farida Lombarkia, Assia Bezai, Néstor Thome
TL;DR
This work extends classical Roth–Rosenblum solvability results for operator equations to the setting of bounded operators on infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces by leveraging group inverses and generalized inverses. It introduces the notions of pseudo-similarity and pseudo-equivalence to relate block operator matrices $M=AC0B$ and $D=A00B$, establishing necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability of $AX-XB=C$ and $AX-YB=C$, and providing explicit parametrized solution formulas. For the Stein-type equation $AYB-Y=C$, the authors derive equivalent pseudo-relations and invertibility criteria that yield constructive solution descriptions. Overall, the results generalize classical matrix theory to a functional-analytic context and supply practical, explicit solution characterizations in terms of $A^{\sharp}$, $B^{\sharp}$, and spectral projections $A^{\pi}$, $B^{\pi}$.
Abstract
This paper provides new necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability to the operator equations $ AX-XB=C$ and $AX-YB=C,$ where $A $ and $B $ are group invertible operators defined on an infinite dimensional Hilbert space. In addition, the general solutions to the equation $AX-YB=C,$ are derived in terms of group inverse of $ A $ and $ B $. As a consequence, new necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability to the operator equation $ AYB-Y=C,$ are derived.
