A condition for diagonalization modulo arbitrary norm ideals

We give a spectral condition which is sufficient for the simultaneous diagonalization of a commuting tuple of self-adjoint operators modulo a given norm ideal. For diagonalization modulo certain norm ideals this condition is also necessary, while for other norm ideals this condition seems to be close to being necessary. Moreover, this condition is easy to verify in applications. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.