On the fine spectrum of the generalized difference operator \(\Delta _{v}\) over the sequence space \(c_{0}\) (Q1014182)

In this study, authors determine the fine spectrum of the newly introduced operator \(\Delta _{v}\) on the sequence space \(c_{0}\). The operator \(\Delta _{v}\) on \(c_{0}\) is defined by \(\Delta _{v}x=(v_{n}x_{n}-v_{n-1}x_{n-1})_{n=0}^{\infty }\) with \(x_{-1}=0,\) where \(v=(v_{k})\) is either constant or strictly decreasing sequence of positive real numbers such that lim\(_{k\rightarrow \infty }v_{k}=L>0\), sup\(_{k}v_{k}\leq 2L\). In this paper, it is shown that the spectrum \(\sigma(\Delta _{v},c_{0})=\{\alpha \in\mathbb C: |1-\frac{\alpha }{L}|\leq 1\} \), and the point spectrum \(\sigma _{p}(\Delta _{v},c_{0}) =\varphi \) if \(v\) is a constant and \(\sigma _{p}(\Delta _{v},c_{0})=\{ v_{n}\} \) if \(v\) is strictly decreasing sequence. The authors also obtain results on the continuous spectrum \(\sigma_{c}(\Delta_{v},c_{0})\), the residual spectrum \(\sigma_{r}(\Delta_{v},c_{0})\) and the fine spectrum of the operator \(\Delta_{v}\) on \(c_{0}\).