Could anyone help me with the following exercise? Any help will be very welcome:
Given a sequence $\{\alpha_n\}$ so that $\alpha_n \to 0$, show that exists a compact operator $T$ with spectrum $\sigma(T)=\{\alpha_n\} \cup \{0\}$
[Edit 1]: I found a useful construction in this answer
[Edit 2]: $T:l^2 \rightarrow l^2, T((a_n)_{n=1}^\infty)=(\lambda_na_n)_{n=1}^\infty$ does the job!