摘要

An operator on a complex Hilbert space is called skew symmetric if can be represented as a skew symmetric matrix relative to some orthonormal basis for . In this paper, we study the approximation of skew symmetric operators and provide a -algebra approach to skew symmetric operators. We classify up to approximate unitary equivalence those skew symmetric operators satisfying . This is used to characterize when a unilateral weighted shift with nonzero weights is approximately unitarily equivalent to a skew symmetric operator.