UPPER TRIANGULAR OPERATORS WITH SVEP

A Banach space operator A $\in$ B(X) is polaroid if the isolated points of the spectrum of A are poles of the resolvent of A; A is hereditarily polaroid, A $\in$ ($\mathcal{H}\mathcal{P}$), if every part of A is polaroid. Let $X^n\;=\;\oplus^n_{t=i}X_i$, where $X_i$ are Banach spaces, and let A denote the class of upper triangular operators A = $(A_{ij})_{1{\leq}i,j{\leq}n$, $A_{ij}\;{\in}\;B(X_j,X_i)$ and $A_{ij}$ = 0 for i > j. We prove that operators A $\in$ A such that $A_{ii}$ for all $1{\leq}i{\leq}n$, and $A^*$ have the single-valued extension property have spectral properties remarkably close to those of Jordan operators of order n and n-normal operators. Operators A $\in$ A such that $A_{ii}$ $\in$ ($\mathcal{H}\mathcal{P}$) for all $1{\leq}i{\leq}n$ are polaroid and have SVEP; hence they satisfy Weyl's theorem. Furthermore, A+R satisfies Browder's theorem for all upper triangular operators R, such that $\oplus^n_{i=1}R_{ii}$ is a Riesz operator, which commutes with A.