On a theorem of Carey and Pincus (Q915093)

A new proof is given of the following theorem due to \textit{R. W. Carey} and \textit{J. D. Pincus} [Am. J. Math. 98, 481-514 (1976; Zbl 0362.47007)]: If H is a bounded selfadjoint operator with spectral measure singular with respect to Lebesgue measure, then there exists a selfadjoint V of arbitrarily small trace-norm such that \(H+V\) has pure point spectrum. This result is extended as follows: If, moreover, H has finite spectral multiplicity r, then V can be chosen of rank r.