A formula to calculate the spectral radius of a compact linear operator (Q1365290)

Summary: There is a formula (Gelfand's formula) to find the spectral radius of a linear operator defined on a Banach space. That formula does not apply even in normed spaces which are not complete. In this paper, we show a formula to find the spectral radius of any linear and compact operator \(T\) defined on a complete topological vector space, locally convex. We also show an easy way to find a nontrivial \(T\)-invariant closed subspace in terms of Minkowski functional.