A Fredholm operator is a bounded linear operator between two Banach spaces that has a finite-dimensional kernel and a closed range, which implies that its cokernel is also finite-dimensional. These operators are significant in studying the properties of linear operators, especially in relation to their spectral theory and the structure of their solutions, connecting them to the spectrum of operators, the Fredholm index, essential spectrum, and Toeplitz operators.
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