• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.653-655
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• 2006

We give a simple proof of the statement that if T is a bounded linear operator on a complex HIlbert space then T is Fredholm if and only if ${\pi}(T)$ is not a TDZ, where ${\pi}(\cdot)$ is the Catkin homomorphism.