On the multiplicities of the powers of a Banach space operator

Abstract

The multiplicities of the powers of a bounded linear operator T T , acting on a complex separable infinite-dimensional Banach space X \mathfrak {X} , satisfy the inequalities \[ ( ∗ ∗ ) μ ( T n ) ⩽ μ ( T h n ) ⩽ h μ ( T n ) for all h , n ⩾ 1. ( * * )\qquad \mu ({T^n}) \leqslant \mu ({T^{hn}}) \leqslant h\mu ({T^n})\quad {\text {for}}\;{\text {all}}\;h,n \geqslant 1. \] Nothing else can be said, in general, because simple examples show that for each sequence { μ n } n = 1 ∞ \{ {\mu _n}\} _{n = 1}^\infty , satisfying the inequalities ( ∗ ∗ ) ( * * ) , there exists T T acting on X \mathfrak {X} such that μ ( T n ) = μ n \mu ({T^n}) = {\mu _n} for all n ⩾ 1 n \geqslant 1 .