Abstract. In this article Weyl's theorem and a-Weyl's theorem on Banach spaces are related to an important property which has a leading role in local spectral theory: the single-valued extension theory.We show that if T has SVEP then Weyl's theorem and a-Weyl's theorem for T * are equivalent, and analogously, if T * has SVEP then Weyl's theorem and a-Weyl's theorem for T are equivalent. From this result we deduce that a-Weyl's theorem holds for classes of operators for which the quasi-nilpotent part H 0 (λI − T ) is equal to ker (λI − T ) p for some p ∈ N and every λ ∈ C, and for algebraically paranormal operators on Hilbert spaces. We also improve recent results established by Curto and Han, Han and Lee, and Oudghiri.
Notation and terminology.We begin with some standard notations in Fredholm theory. Throughout this note by L(X) we denote the algebra of all bounded linear operators acting on an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space X. For every T ∈ L(X) we denote by α(T ) and β(T ) the dimension of the kernel ker T and the codimension of the range T (X), respectively. The class of upper semi-Fredholm operators is defined by
(T ) < ∞ and T (X) is closed}, whilst the class of lower semi-Fredholm operators is defined byFor a linear operator T the ascent p := p(T ) is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer p such that ker T p = ker T p+1 . If such an integer does not exist we put p(T ) = ∞. Analogously, the descent q := q(T ) is defined as the smallest nonnegative integer q such that T q (X) = T q+1 (X), and if such an integer does not exist we put q(T ) = ∞. A classical result states that if 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 47A10, 47A11; Secondary 47A53, 47A55.