• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.54 no.1
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• pp.215-223
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• 2017

In this paper, we establish results about operators similar to their adjoints. This is carried out in the setting of bounded and also unbounded operators on a Hilbert space. Among the results, we prove that an unbounded closed operator similar to its adjoint, via a cramped unitary operator, is self-adjoint. The proof of this result works also as a new proof of the celebrated result by Berberian on the same problem in the bounded case. Other results on similarity of hyponormal unbounded operators and their self-adjointness are also given, generalizing well known results by Sheth and Williams.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.531-540
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• 2015

If T is an unbounded hyponormal operator on an infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space H with ${\rho}(T){\neq}{\phi}$, then it is shown that T satisfies Weyl's theorem, generalized Weyl's theorem, Browder's theorem and generalized Browder's theorem. The equivalence of generalized Weyl's theorem with generalized Browder's theorem, property (gw) with property (gb) and property (w) with property (b) have also been established. It is also shown that a-Browder's theorem holds for T as well as its adjoint $T^*$.