On $\lambda $-commuting operators
Volume 166 / 2005
                    
                    
                        Studia Mathematica 166 (2005), 1-9                    
                                        
                        MSC: Primary 47B07, 47A58.                    
                                        
                        DOI: 10.4064/sm166-1-1                    
                                    
                                                Abstract
For a scalar $\lambda $, two operators $T$ and $S$ are said to $\lambda $-commute if $TS=\lambda ST$. In this note we explore the pervasiveness of the operators that $\lambda $-commute with a compact operator by characterizing the closure and the interior of the set of operators with this property.