Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2009
Suppose that T and S are continuous linear operators on complex Banach spaces X and Y, respectively, and that A is a non-zero continuous linear mapping from X to Y. If A intertwines T and S in the sense that SA = AT, then a classical result due to Rosenblum implies that the spectra σ(T) and σ(S) must overlap, see [12]. Actually, Davis and Rosenthal [5]have shown that the surjectivity spectrum σsu(T) will meet the approximate point spectrum σap(S) in this case (terms to be denned below). Further information about the relations between the two spectra and their finer structure becomes available when the intertwiner A is injective or has dense range, see [9], [12], [13].