Past exam of the functional analysis I course of the University of Oxford / 2023 / 3 / a / i

Writing $\mathcal{B}(X)$ for the Banach space of bounded linear operators on $X$, the spectrum isHere $I$ is the identity operator. Since $X$ is a Banach space, the bounded inverse theorem makes this equivalent to failure of bijectivity of $\lambda I-T$.

The spectral radius isFor 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.