Some connections between an operator and its Helton class ✩

In this paper we show that the nilpotent perturbation of operators in the Helton class of p-hyponormal operators has scalar extensions. As a corollary we get that the nilpotent perturbation of each operator in the Helton class of p-hyponormal operators has a nontrivial invariant subspace if its spectrum has nonempty interior in the plane. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved