This is an announcement for the paper "Commutators on $\ell_{\infty}$" by Detelin Dosev and William B. Johnson.

Abstract: The operators on $\ell_{\infty}$ which are commutators are those not of the form $\lambda I + S$ with $\lambda\neq 0$ and $S$ strictly singular.

Archive classification: math.FA

Mathematics Subject Classification: 47B47

Remarks: 15 pages. Submitted to the Journal of Functional Analysis

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Submitted from: ddosev@gmail.com

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