Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 5 2 12 Solution 2026-10-06
Let be a singular Weyl sequence for at . Since is compact and , the preceding result gives . ThereforeThe norms remain one and the weak limit remains zero. The singular Weyl sequence criterion yields . Apply the same argument to and the compact self-adjoint operator for the reverse inclusion. Both operators are bounded and self-adjoint. Thus the Weyl theorem for compact self-adjoint perturbations isThe corrected shifted-range definition is necessary. For the diagonal example in the preceding solutions, a rank-one perturbation changing the entry to removes from the spectrum. The unshifted printed definition had classified as essential merely because the original range was not closed, so it would make this invariance false.