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Essential spectrum of constant invertible diagonal matrix acting on a product of Hilbert spaces [closed]

Let $M$ be a $3\times 3$ real invertible diagonal matrix and $H$ a Hilbert space of infinite dimension (for example, we can take $H$ as the space of square integrable functions over a bounded ...
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Closure of the space of Fredholm operators

Let $X,Y$ be two Banach spaces. A bounded operator $A$ is Fredholm if $\ker A$ and $\mathrm{coker} A$ are finite dimensional. Denote by $Fred(X,Y) \subset \mathcal{L}(X,Y)$ the space of Fredholm ...
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Essential spectrum of multiplication operator

Let $a\in \mathcal{L}(L^2([0, 1], \mathbb{R}))$ be a multiplication operator. I wonder whether there is any work on calculating its essential spectrum. Is there any way to explicitly compute its ...
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