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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 106 2 b 3 Solution by
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If the spectrum has one point, the preceding part gives , and the linear span of any nonzero vector is a closed proper invariant subspace because .
Otherwise choose distinct points and disjoint nonempty relatively open neighborhoods . The open-set result gives and , whileThus . Set . As the range of an orthogonal projection, is closed, and the preceding observations give . The Borel functional calculus for a normal operator gives , soIn fact both and its orthogonal complement are invariant.
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