Flot hamiltonien et spectre d'un opérateur elliptique
-scalar-type spectrality criterions for operators A whose resolvent set contains the negative reals are provided. The criterions are given in terms of growth conditions on the resolvent of A and the semigroup generated by A. These criterions characterize scalar-type operators on the Banach space X if and only if X has no subspace isomorphic to the space of complex null-sequences.
A major obstacle in extending the theory of well-bounded operators to cover operators whose spectrum is not necessarily real has been the lack of a suitable variation norm applicable to functions defined on an arbitrary nonempty compact subset σ of the plane. In this paper we define a new Banach algebra BV(σ) of functions of bounded variation on such a set and show that the function-theoretic properties of this algebra make it better suited to applications in spectral theory than those used previously....