The Lower Weyl Spectrum of a Positive Operator

Abstract

For the lower Weyl spectrum

$$\sigma_{\rm w}^-(T) = \bigcap_{0 \le K \in \mathcal{K}(E) \le T} \sigma(T - K),$$

where T is a positive operator on a Banach lattice E, the conditions for which the equality ${\sigma_{\rm w}^-(T) = \sigma_{\rm w}^-(T^*)}$ holds, are established. In particular, it is true if E has order continuous norm. An example of a weakly compact positive operator T on ℓ _∞ such that the spectral radius ${r(T) \in \sigma_{\rm w}^-(T) {\setminus} (\sigma_{\rm f}(T) \cup \sigma_{\rm w}^-(T^*))}$ , where σ _f(T) is the Fredholm spectrum, is given. The conditions which guarantee the order continuity of the residue T ₋₁ of the resolvent R(., T) of an order continuous operator T ≥ 0 at ${r(T) \notin \sigma_{\rm f}(T)}$ , are discussed. For example, it is true if T is o-weakly compact. It follows from the proven results that a Banach lattice E admitting an order continuous operator T ≥ 0, ${r(T) \notin \sigma_{\rm f}(T)}$ , can not have the trivial band ${E_n^\sim}$ of order continuous functionals in general. It is obtained that a non-zero order continuous operator T : E → F can not be approximated in the r-norm by the operators from ${E_\sigma^\sim \otimes F}$ , where F is a Banach lattice, ${E_\sigma^\sim}$ is a disjoint complement of the band ${E_n^\sim}$ of E*.