The reverse order law for Moore-Penrose inverses of operators on Hilbert C*-modules

Abstract

Suppose $T$ and $S$ are bounded adjointable operators between Hilbert C*-modules admitting bounded Moore-Penrose inverse operators. Some necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the reverse order law $(TS)^{ \dag} =S^{ \dag} T^{ \dag}$ to hold. In particular, we show that the equality holds if and only if $Ran(T^{\ast}TS) \subseteq Ran(S)$ and $Ran(SS^{\ast}T^{\ast}) \subseteq Ran(T^{\ast}),$ which was studied first by Greville [{\it SIAM Rev. 8 (1966) 518--521}] for matrices.