An example of weakly amenable and character amenable operator

Abstract

A complete characterization of Hilbert space operators that generate weakly amenable algebras remains open, even in the case of compact operator. Farenick, Forrest and Marcoux proposed the question that if $T$ is a compact weakly amenable operator on a Hilbert space $\mathfrak{H}$, then is $T$ similar to a normal operator? In this paper, we demonstrate an example of compact triangular operator on infinite-dimensional Hilbert space which is a weakly amenable and character amenable operator but is not similar to a normal operator.