Solution

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Writing for the Banach space of bounded linear operators on , the spectrum is
Here is the identity operator. Since is a Banach space, the bounded inverse theorem makes this equivalent to failure of bijectivity of .
The spectral radius is
For a nonzero complex Banach space, the spectrum of a bounded linear operator is nonempty and compact, so the supremum is a maximum. If the zero space is allowed, its empty spectrum is assigned spectral radius zero.

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