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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ii Paper 4 21F i Solution by
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For a bounded linear operator on a complex Hilbert space, the spectrum of a bounded operator consists of for which does not have a bounded everywhere-defined inverse. A bijective bounded operator has a bounded inverse by the bounded inverse theorem. Using the disjoint spectral convention,These are respectively the point spectrum, continuous spectrum and residual spectrum, and partition the spectrum. Some texts let residual spectrum include noninjective operators with nondense range; the displayed convention excludes overlap with point spectrum.
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