Normal Operator - Normal Elements

Normal Elements

The notion of normal operators generalizes to an involutive algebra; namely, an element x of an involutive algebra is said to be normal if . The most important case is when such an algebra is a C*-algebra. A positive element is an example of a normal element.

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