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# Generalized Right Group Inverse

Generalized right group inverse denotes a family of one-sided generalized inverses whose modern explicit formulation lies in Banach *-algebra theory, where the notion extends the generalized (weak) group inverse by integrating a right group inverse with quasinilpotency. The same theme appears earlier in rings, operator theory, matrices, and semigroup theory through right core inverses, inverses along an element, right generalized Drazin decompositions, and right generalized inverse semigroups. The expression therefore names both a specific analytic definition and a broader structural paradigm of “group-like inversion on the right” [2507.11996][1512.02623][1207.4296].

## 1. Banach *-algebra definition

In the recent Banach *-algebra setting, \(\mathcal A\) is a Banach *-algebra with a proper involution, and quasinilpotent elements are
\[
\mathcal A^{qnil}=\left\{x\in\mathcal A:\lim_{n\to\infty}\|x^n\|^{1/n}=0\right\}.
\]
Following Yan, an element \(a\in\mathcal A\) has a right group inverse if there exists \(x\in\mathcal A\) such that
\[
ax^2=x,\qquad a^2x=axa=a.
\]
The same circle of ideas also uses the generalized right Drazin inverse: \(a\) has one if there exists \(x\in\mathcal A\) such that
\[
ax^2=x,\qquad a^2x=axa,\qquad a-axa\in\mathcal A^{qnil}.
\]

Against that background, the generalized right group inverse is defined by the existence of \(x\in\mathcal A\) with
\[
x=ax^2,\qquad (a^*a^2x)^* = a^*a^2x,\qquad \lim_{n\to\infty}\|a^n-axa^n\|^{1/n}=0.
\]
The defining equations show three simultaneous features: a one-sided algebraic inverse law \(x=ax^2\), a *-symmetry condition on \(a^*a^2x\), and a quasinilpotent asymptotic defect measured by \(a^n-axa^n\). In this sense, the modern notion is not merely the ordinary group inverse with commutativity removed; it is explicitly a right-sided inverse concept combined with spectral decay [2507.11996].

## 2. Decomposition, polar-like form, and the \(m\)-generalized theory

A central structural characterization is the generalized right group decomposition. An element \(a\) has such a decomposition if there exist \(x,y\in\mathcal A\) such that
\[
a=x+y,\qquad x^*y=0,\qquad yx=0,\qquad x\in\mathcal A_r^\#,\quad y\in\mathcal A^{qnil}.
\]
The corresponding theorem states that this is equivalent to the analytic definition above, and in that case the generalized right group inverse is exactly the right group inverse of the right-group-invertible part:
\[
a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}}=(a_1)_r^\#.
\]
The same paper gives a polar-like characterization: \(a\in\mathcal A_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}}\) if and only if there exists an idempotent \(p\) such that \((1-p)a(1-p)\) is right invertible in \((1-p)\mathcal A(1-p)\), \((a^*ap)^*=a^*ap\), and \(pa=pap\in\mathcal A^{qnil}\). It also identifies the generalized right group inverse through generalized right Drazin data, for example by
\[
a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}}=a_r^d q
\]
for a suitable idempotent \(q\), and by the normal-equation-type representation
\[
a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}}=(a_r^d)^2x
\]
when \((aa_r^d)^*(aa_r^d)x=(aa_r^d)^*a\). An EP-type refinement is provided by the generalized right core-EP inverse: it exists exactly when \(a\) is generalized right group invertible and \(a^2a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}}\in\mathcal A^{(1,3)}\) [2507.11996].

H. Chen and M. Sheibani extended this theory to the \(m\)-generalized right group inverse. Here \(a\in\mathcal A_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}_m}\) if \(a\in\mathcal A_r^d\) and there exists \(x\in\mathcal A\) such that
\[
x=ax^2,\qquad (aa_r^d)^*a^{m+1}x=(aa_r^d)^*a^m,\qquad \lim_{n\to\infty}\|a^n-axa^n\|^{1/n}=0.
\]
This is equivalent to \(a^m\in\mathcal A_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}}\), with
\[
a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}_m}=a^{m-1}(a^m)_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}},\qquad (a^m)_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}}=\big(a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}_m}\big)^m.
\]
The \(m\)-generalized right group decomposition has the form
\[
a=x+y,\qquad x^*a^{m-1}y=0,\qquad yx=0,\qquad x\in\mathcal A_r^\#,\quad y\in\mathcal A^{qnil},
\]
and the corresponding inverse is \(a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}_m}=x_r^\#\). The same work gives a polar-like criterion with an idempotent \(p\) satisfying \((1-p)a(1-p)\in[(1-p)\mathcal A(1-p)]_r^{-1}\), \(((a^m)^*a^mp)^*=(a^m)^*a^mp\), \(ap\in\mathcal A^{qnil}\), and \((1-p)\mathcal A=a(1-p)\mathcal A\). It also shows that generalized right core invertibility is stronger: if \(a\in\mathcal A_r^{\tiny\textcircled{d}}\), then \(a\in\mathcal A_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}_m}\) and
\[
a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}_m}=(a_r^d)^{m+1}a\,a_r^{\tiny\textcircled{d}}\,a^m.
\]
An infinite-dimensional example is given by the left shift \(L_1\) on \(\ell^2(\mathbb N)\), for which
\[
(L_1)_r^{\tiny\textcircled{g}_m}=S_{m+1}L_m,
\]
showing that the theory is genuinely one-sided and not restricted to finite-dimensional or two-sided group-invertible situations [2507.10600].

## 3. Ring-theoretic antecedents and one-sided algebraic models

A major precursor is the inverse along an element in a unitary ring. An element \(b\) is an outer inverse of \(a\) if \(b=bab\). Then \(a\) is invertible along \(d\) if there exists such a \(b\) with
\[
bR=dR,\qquad Rb=Rd,
\]
and this inverse is unique, denoted \(a^{\parallel d}\). The group inverse is exactly the special case
\[
a^\#=a^{\parallel a}.
\]
For regular \(d\), the existence theory can be expressed in right-sided terms: \(b=a^{\parallel d}\) if and only if
\[
bR=dR,\qquad b^{-1}(0)=d^{-1}(0).
\]
This gives a precise algebraic model of a generalized right group inverse: an outer inverse reproducing the right ideal and right annihilator of a prescribed element \(d\) [1507.05410].

In a *-ring, the right core inverse makes the one-sided character even more explicit. An element \(a\) is right core invertible if there exists \(x\in a\mathcal R\) such that
\[
a^*ax=a^*.
\]
Equivalently, there exists \(x\) with
\[
axa=a,\qquad x=ax^2,\qquad (ax)^*=ax.
\]
The right pseudo core inverse generalizes this by allowing a power \(a^k\):
\[
axa^k=a^k,\qquad x=ax^2,\qquad (ax)^*=ax,
\]
and the paper proves that this is equivalent to \(a^k\) being right core invertible for some \(k\). These notions were presented as one-sided analogues of the core inverse and pseudo core inverse, and the right pseudo core inverse was identified as a natural higher-index candidate for a generalized right group inverse in the *-ring setting [1804.00688].

A parallel *-monoid formulation is the right g-MP inverse, defined by
\[
aS=a^2S=aa^*aS.
\]
It is equivalent to the statement that \(a^*a\) is right invertible along \(a\). This places one-sided Moore–Penrose-type geometry directly into the same framework as right inverses along an element, and therefore into the same conceptual territory as generalized right group inverses [1512.04875].

The theory of generalized inverses, ideals, and projectors in rings supplies a systematic module-theoretic language for these constructions. The paper characterizes \(\{1\}\)-, \(\{2\}\)-, and \(\{1,2\}\)-inverses with prescribed principal and annihilator ideals by means of idempotent projectors, and this yields unique outer or \(\{1,2\}\)-inverses with specified right ideal \(S\) and right annihilator \(T\) whenever
\[
R=aS\oplus T,\qquad \mathrm{rann}(a)\cap S=\{0\},
\]
or, for the \(\{1,2\}\)-case,
\[
R=aR\oplus T,\qquad R=S\oplus \mathrm{rann}(a).
\]
This suggests that a generalized right group inverse in a ring can be understood as a \(\{1,2\}\)-inverse whose right range and right annihilator encode the “right invertible part” of the module, even when no commuting two-sided group inverse exists [2304.06149].

## 4. Operator-theoretic and local spectral formulation

In Banach-space operator theory, Benharrat–Miloud Hocine–Messirdi introduced the right generalized Drazin invertible operator. For \(T\in\mathcal L(X)\), with analytic core \(K(T)\) and quasinilpotent part \(H_0(T)\), \(T\) is right generalized Drazin invertible if \(K(T)\) is closed and complemented, equivalently if
\[
X=K(T)\oplus N,\qquad T_{|K(T)}\text{ is surjective},\qquad T_{|N}\text{ is quasinilpotent}.
\]
They also proved the equivalence with several spectral and local spectral conditions: \(0\) is an isolated point of \(\sigma_{su}(T)\); \(T\) admits a generalized Kato decomposition and \(T^*\) has SVEP at \(0\); and there exists a bounded projection \(P\) such that
\[
TP=PT,\qquad T+P\text{ is surjective},\qquad TP\text{ is quasinilpotent},\qquad N(P)=K(T).
\]
In this setting a right generalized Drazin inverse is any operator that acts as a bounded right inverse on \(K(T)\) and vanishes on the quasinilpotent complement. The paper explicitly presents this as the natural model of a generalized right group inverse in infinite-dimensional operator theory. It also proves invariance under commuting finite-rank perturbations:
\[
\sigma_{rgD}(T+F)=\sigma_{rgD}(T)
\]
whenever \(F\) is finite rank and \(TF=FT\) [1512.02623].

This operator-theoretic picture is closely aligned with the Banach *-algebra definitions of 2025. In both cases the decisive structure is a decomposition into a right-invertible or right-group-invertible part and a quasinilpotent part. A plausible implication is that the Banach *-algebra generalized right group inverse can be read as a refinement of the right generalized Drazin decomposition by adding *-symmetry and explicit right group inverse equations.

## 5. Matrix and block-operator realizations

For square matrices, the classical group inverse already supplies the index-one prototype. If \(A\in\mathbb C^{n\times n}\) has \(\operatorname{ind}(A)\le 1\), then the unique solution of
\[
AXA=A,\qquad XAX=X,\qquad AX=XA
\]
is the group inverse \(A^\#\). Using Rhode’s decomposition \(QAP=E_r\), the group inverse has the block representation
\[
A^\#=
P
\begin{bmatrix}
I_r & -V_2V_4^{-1}\\
V_4^{-1}V_3 & V_4^{-1}V_3V_2V_4^{-1}
\end{bmatrix}
Q.
\]
The same source states that, in the square case with \(\operatorname{ind}(A)\le1\), a generalized right group inverse is exactly the group inverse \(A^\#\), while for higher index the analogous group-type inverse is the Drazin inverse \(A^D\) [1509.03458].

Block-matrix formulas make the right-sided behavior more visible. In the pseudo principal pivot transform, if \(A^\#\) exists and
\[
K=D-CA^\#B,
\]
then
\[
\operatorname{pppt}(M,A)^\#=
\begin{pmatrix}
A^\# & -A^\#B\\
CA^\# & K
\end{pmatrix}.
\]
The associated exchange law states that, under suitable range conditions,
\[
M
\begin{pmatrix}
x_1\\ x_2
\end{pmatrix}
=
\begin{pmatrix}
AA^\#y_1\\ y_2
\end{pmatrix}
\Longleftrightarrow
P
\begin{pmatrix}
y_1\\ x_2
\end{pmatrix}
=
\begin{pmatrix}
A^\#Ax_1\\ y_2
\end{pmatrix},
\]
which isolates the fact that \(A^\#\) acts as a right inverse on \(\mathcal R(A)\). The paper does not define a distinct “right group inverse,” but it explicitly interprets these formulas as exposing right-acting generalized group-inverse behavior on appropriate range subspaces [1605.01970].

For products in rings and Banach algebras, generalized Cline formulas transfer group-like inverses between different right-left factorizations. Under
\[
(ac)^2=(db)(ac),\qquad (db)^2=(ac)(db),
\]
together with the additional ring hypotheses recorded in the paper, one has
\[
ac\in R^d \Longleftrightarrow bd\in R^d,\qquad (bd)^d=b\big((ac)^d\big)^2d.
\]
The corresponding group-inverse result shows that if \(ac\in R^\#\), then \((ba)^2\in R^\#\) and
\[
(ac)^\#=a\big[(ba)^2\big]^\# c.
\]
These formulas factor the inverse through a central “core” inverse sandwiched by left and right multipliers, which is precisely the form expected of a generalized right group construction [2006.06720].

Anti-triangular block operator matrices furnish a large operator class where such right-sided spectral compatibility becomes decisive. For
\[
M=\begin{pmatrix}E&I\\ F&0\end{pmatrix},
\]
the group inverse exists under conditions involving the spectral idempotent \(F^\pi=I-FF^D\). One result states that if \(E,F,EF^\pi\) have Drazin inverses and
\[
FEF^\pi=0,
\]
then \(M\) has a group inverse if and only if \(F\) has a group inverse and the corresponding spectral-idempotent compatibility condition holds; explicit formulas for \(M^\#\) are then obtained in terms of \(F^\#\), \(E\), and \(EF^\pi\) [2203.09086]. A related paper gives g-Drazin and group inverses for the same anti-triangular pattern under
\[
EFEF^\pi=0,\qquad F^2EF^\pi=0,
\]
again producing explicit operator-matrix representations [2305.09951]. These results show that right-sided annihilation of the quasinilpotent part, encoded by expressions such as \(FEF^\pi=0\), is sufficient to promote a generalized Drazin-type inverse to a genuine group inverse.

## 6. Semigroup and ordered-semigroup backgrounds

Long before the explicit Banach *-algebra terminology, semigroup theory had already isolated right-sided group-like inversion. A right generalized inverse semigroup is a regular semigroup whose idempotents form a right normal band. Its structure is determined by free étale actions of inverse semigroups, and every such semigroup is isomorphic to a right Yamada semigroup built from an inverse semigroup \(T=S/\gamma\) and a presheaf over \(E(T)\). In the associated model
\[
S=T*X=\{(t,x)\in T\times X:d(t)=p(x)\},
\]
the inverses of \((s,x)\) are exactly
\[
(s^{-1},y)\quad\text{with}\quad p(y)=r(s).
\]
The quotient \(S/\gamma\cong T\) carries the unique inverse-semigroup inversion, while the right normal band \(X\) records the one-sided multiplicity of inverses. This is a precise semigroup-theoretic realization of right group-like inverse behavior [1207.4296].

Ordered semigroups make the same phenomenon explicit in one-sided Green-theoretic form. A regular ordered semigroup is right inverse if every principal left ideal is generated by an \(\mathcal R\)-unique ordered idempotent. Equivalently, for each \(a\) and any \(a',a''\in V_S(a)\),
\[
a'\,\mathcal R\, a''.
\]
Thus all ordered inverses of an element are unique up to \(\mathcal R\), which is the ordered-semigroup analogue of uniqueness of a right group inverse on the right ideal level [1706.08214].

A power-based ordered generalization is the right \(T\)-inverse ordered semigroup. Here, for each \(a\), some power \(a^m\) has left ideal \((Sa^m]\) generated by an \(\mathcal R\)-unique ordered idempotent. Equivalently, for suitable \(m\), any two ordered inverses of \(a^m\) are \(\mathcal R\)-equivalent. When \(\mathcal R^*\) is a congruence, such semigroups decompose as semilattices of right \(T\)-\(t\)-simple ordered semigroups. This is a power-level analogue of right group-like inversion, and it shows that the right-sided idea persists even when inversion is available only after passing to powers [2407.14569].

Across these settings, the invariant feature is the same: a generalized right group inverse isolates a part on which inversion is group-like on the right and separates it from a residual component controlled by idempotents, annihilators, or quasinilpotent behavior. In Banach *-algebras this residual component is quasinilpotent; in rings it is encoded by prescribed ideals and projectors; in operator theory it is the quasinilpotent complement of the analytic core; and in semigroup theory it is carried by a right normal band or an \(\mathcal R\)-class structure. This suggests that the modern term names a one-sided inversion principle that is algebraic, spectral, and categorical at once.

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