ON BROWDER'S THEOREM

In this paper we give several necessary and sufficient conditions for an operator on the Hilbert space to obey Browder's theorem. And it is shown that if S has totally finite ascent and $T{\prec}S$ then $f(T)$ obeys Browder's theorem for every $f{\in}H({\sigma}(T))$, where $H({\sigma}(T))$ denotes the set of all analytic functions on an open neighborhood of ${\sigma}(T)$.