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Let be a Banach space and suppose that is a bounded linear operator. What is an eigenvalue of What is the spectrum of
Let be the space of continuous real-valued functions endowed with the sup norm. Define an operator by
where
Prove the following facts about :
(i) and the second derivative is equal to for ;
(ii) is compact;
(iii) has infinitely many eigenvalues;
(iv) 0 is not an eigenvalue of ;
(v) .
[The Arzelà-Ascoli theorem may be assumed without proof.]
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