Property (w) and perturbations ✩

A bounded linear operator T ∈ L(X) defined on a Banach space X satisfies property (w), a variant of Weyl’s theorem, if the complement in the approximate point spectrum σa(T ) of the Weyl essential approximate spectrum σwa(T ) coincides with the set of all isolated points of the spectrum which are eigenvalues of finite multiplicity. In this note, we study the stability of property (w), for a bounded operator T acting on a Banach space, under perturbations by finite rank operators, by nilpotent operator and quasi-nilpotent operators commuting with T . © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved