Operators on \(l^\infty\) with totally disconnected spectrum and applications to \(J\)-class operators (Q2260398)

It is shown that if \(T\) is a bounded linear operator on \(\ell^\infty\) with totally disconnected spectrum, then the spectrum \(\sigma(T^*)\) of the adjoint coincides with its point spectrum (set of eigenvalues). Several results are provided concerning those operators \(T\) on \(X=\ell^\infty\) having the property that \(J_T(x)=X\) for some \(x\in X\setminus \{0\}\), where \(J_T(x)\) is the set of all \(y\in X\) for which there is a strictly increasing sequence \(k_n\) of integers and a sequence \((x_n)\) in \(X\) such that \(x_n\to x\) and \(T^{k_n}(x)\to y\).