Type: Article
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Citations: 182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9947-97-01881-3
“Weyl’s theorem holds" for an operator <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper T"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>T</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> on a Banach space <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper X"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>X</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">X</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> when the complement in the spectrum of the “Weyl spectrum" coincides with the isolated points of spectrum which are eigenvalues of finite multiplicity. This is close to, but not quite the same as, equality between the Weyl spectrum and the “Browder spectrum", which in turn ought to, but does not, guarantee the spectral mapping theorem for the Weyl spectrum of polynomials in <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper T"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>T</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula>. In this note we try to explore these distinctions.