Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-analysis-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2010/a/3/c/solution

For the multiplication operator, . Taking gives equality, so .
An eigenfunction obeys at every . If , its level set is the single point , and a continuous function supported at a single point is zero. If , that level set is empty. For , every continuous function vanishing on is an eigenfunction, and nonzero examples exist, such as . Thus .
If , multiplication by is a bounded inverse of . If , choose with . Every function in the range of vanishes at , so the range omits the constant function one. Hence it is not onto. Therefore

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