Approximate point spectrum and commuting compact perturbations

Abstract

Let X be an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space and denote the set of bounded (compact) linear operators on X by B (X) (K(X)). Let σ(A) and σa(A) denote, respectively, the spectrum and approximate point spectrum of an element A of B(X). Setσem(A)and σeb(A) are respectively Schechter's and Browder's essential spectrum of A ([16], [9]). σea (A) is a non-empty compact subset of the set of complex numbers ℂ and it is called the essential approximate point spectrum of A ([13], [14]). In this note we characterize σab(A) and show that if f is a function analytic in a neighborhood of σ(A), then σab(f(A)) = f(σab(A)). The relation between σa(A) and σeb(A), that is exhibited in this paper, resembles the relation between the σ(A) and the σeb(A), and it is reasonable to call σab(A) Browder's essential approximate point spectrum of A.