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?
compact operator and its spectrum
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2I haven't thought about your specific case, but Arzela-Ascoli is a standard tool for showing subsets of $C[0,1]$ are compact. – 2012-04-15
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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