Solution

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The hypothesis puts zero in the common unbounded resolvent component from part (iii). Hence for , and , or equivalently . By the definition of this norm closure, for each choose a polynomial with . Therefore
This is an approximation in the algebra norm, not merely a scalar approximation on the Banach algebra spectrum.

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