A Banach space operator T ∈ B(X) is polaroid, T ∈ P, if the isolated points of the spectrum of T are poles of the resolvent of T . Let PS denote the class of operators in P which have have SVEP, the single-valued extension property. It is proved that if T is polynomially PS and A ∈ B(X) is an algebraic operator which commutes with T , then f (T + A) satisfies Weyl's theorem and f (T * + A * ) satisfies a-Weyl's theorem for every f which is holomorphic on a neighbourhood of σ (T + A). (2000). Primary 47B47, 47A10, 47A11. Key words and phrases. Banach space, polaroid operator, single valued extension property, algebraic operator, polynomial operator, orthogonal subspaces, Browder's theorem, Weyl's theorem. 318 B. P. DUGGAL the classes consisting of hyponormal operators, log-hyponormal operators, p-hyponormal operators, M -hyponormal operators, w-hyponormal operators and totally * -paranormal Hilbert space operators. Furthermore, generalized scalar and subscalar operators in B(X), and multipliers of commutative semisimple Banach algebras are PS operators. (We refer the interested reader to [1, pp. 174-176] and [25] for further information; also see Section 4.) Recall, [11,13], that an operator T ∈ B(X) is said to be totally hereditarily normaloid, T ∈ T H N , if every part, and also T −1 p for every invertible part T p , of T is normaloid. Here a part of an operator is its restriction to an invariant subspace, and an operator is normaloid if its spectral radius equals its norm. Our first observation, which applies in particular to the class of paranormal operators [20, p. 229], is the following. PROPOSITION 1.1. T H N ⊂ PS. Proof. Recall from Dunford and Schwartz [15, p 93] that a subspace M of X is orthogonal to a subspace N of X in the sense of Garret Birkhoff, M ⊥ N , if ||m|| ≤ ||m + n|| for all m ∈ M and n ∈ N . This asymmetric definition of orthogonality reduces to the ususal (standard) definition of orthogonality in the case in which X = H is a Hilbert space. Let us say, for convenience, that T ∈ B(X) satisfies the orthogonality property O if (T − α) −1 (0) ⊥ T −1 (0) and (T − α) −1 (0) ⊥ (T − β) −1 (0) for all nontrivial distinct α,β ∈ C which are in the point spectrum σ p (T ) of T . (We remark here that whereas the polaroid property is invariant under similarities, property O is not similarity invariant.) It is known, see [13, Propositions 2.1 and 2.5], that T H N operators are simply polaroid and satisfy property O. The following argument, which is similar to that of [14, Lemma 3.9] (also see [3]), proves that T H N operators have SVEP.
AMS(MOS) subject classificationAssume to the contrary that T does not have SVEP at a point α 0 . Then there exists a disc D centered at α 0 and a non-trivial analytic function f : D −→ X such that f (λ) ∈ (T − λ) −1 (0) for all λ ∈ D. Let μ ∈ D be such that f (μ) = 0, and let τ ∈ D \ {μ} such that f (τ ) = 0. If μ, τ are both non-zero, then the (mutual) orthogonality of (T − μ) −1 (0) and (T − τ ) −1 (0) implies that 0 < || f (μ)|| ≤ || f (μ) − f (τ )|| and 0 < || f (τ )|...