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Past exam of the analysis course of the University of Oxford 2007 A 4 Solution by
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The spectrum of a bounded operator consists of for which has no bounded two-sided inverse. The point spectrum consists of eigenvalues, so . The approximate point spectrum consists of admitting unit vectors with ; equivalently is not bounded below.
If is invertible, its inverse bounds it below and its Banach-space adjoint is invertible. Thus neither alternative on the right of the claimed union occurs. Conversely suppose belongs to neither term and write . There is with , so is injective and has closed range: convergence of makes Cauchy, and completeness supplies a preimage of its limit. Also . The allowed annihilator identity makes the range dense, hence equal to . Its inverse has norm at most . This proves the spectrum decomposition through the Banach-space adjoint:For the right shift on , , so the allowed norm bound puts its spectrum in the closed unit disc. Under the linear pairing with , its Banach-space adjoint is the left shift . For each the bounded nonzero sequence is an eigenvector of with eigenvalue . The union identity gives the reverse inclusion. Hence . This Banach-space adjoint uses the complex-linear dual, so its eigenvalue is itself.
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