I'm trying to study compact operators, but i'm having a little trouble with the 'practice'.. What are some tecniques to prove an operator compact. I know it can be shown that a limit of finite range operators is a compact one, but other ways? For instance take $T_{\alpha}:C[0,1] \longrightarrow C[0,1]$, $T_{\alpha}f(x)=\int_0^x\frac{f(t)}{t^{\alpha}} dt$ for $\alpha \in [0,1[$. How to prove it is compact and what is its spectrum?
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1I took a bounded sequence of functions $f_n$ and showed that $Tf_n$ is equicontinuos and uniformly bounded, and this should give the proof of compact. What about the spectrum? – 2012-04-26
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Some methods that I know are
1)T(B(0,1)) is totally bounded ( image of the open ball, radius 1, centered at 0)
2)cl(T(B(0,1)) is compact
3,For every bounded sequence $x_n$, $Tx_n$ has a convergent subsequence
I think you can use 1) for the above problem.