Abstract
Compact elementary operators acting on the algebra ℒ(H) of all bounded operators on some Hilbert space H were characterised by Fong and Sourour in [9]. Akemann and Wright investigated compact and weakly compact derivations on C*-algebras [1], and also studied compactness properties of the sum and the product of the right and the left regular representation of an element in a C*-algebra [2]. They used the concept of a compact Banach algebra element due to Vala [17]: an element a in a Banach algebra A is called compact if the mapping x → axa is compact on A. This notion has been further investigated by Ylinen [18, 19, 20], who showed in particular that a is a compact element of the C*-algebra A if x ↦ axa is weakly compact on A [19].
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