analysis - What are the range and the norm of this bounded linear operator?

Given the normed space $\ell^\infty$ of all bounded sequences of (real or complex) numbers with the norm given by $$||x||:= \sup_{j\in Z^+} |\xi_j|,$$ for each $x:=(\xi_j)_{j=1}^\infty$ in $\ell^\infty$, and given the linear operator $T \colon \ell^\infty \to \ell^\infty$ defined as $$T(\xi_j)_{j=1}^\infty := (\frac{\xi_j}{j})_{j=1}^\infty,$$ while $T$ is bounded, how to compute the norm of $T$, and how to find its range?

What is the range of $T$? And what is its norm? Is the range a closed set in $\ell^\infty$?

This operator being injective admits an inverse. (This inverse is also a linear operator from the range to the domain space.) Is the inverse a bounded operator too?

Answer

It is obvious that $\Vert Tx\Vert_\infty\leq\Vert x\Vert_\infty$, hence
$\Vert T\Vert\leq 1$. Since $\Vert T(1,0,0,\ldots)\Vert_\infty=\Vert (1,0,\ldots)\Vert_\infty$, we conclude that $\Vert T\Vert=1$.

One can easily verify that
$$T(l^\infty)=\left\{(\xi_j):\exists C>0 \text{ such that } |\xi_j|\leq C/j\text{ for all j}\right\}$$

$T(l^\infty)$ is not closed in $l^\infty$: Let $x_n=(1,\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2}},\ldots,\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{n}},0,0,\ldots)=T(1,\sqrt{2},\ldots,\sqrt{n},0,\ldots)$. The sequence $(x_n)$ obviously converges to $x=\left(1/\sqrt{j}\right)_{j=1}^\infty\in l^\infty$, which does not lie in $T(l^\infty)$ (if it did, what would be it's pre-image?).

The inverse operator $T^{-1}$ is not bounded: Consider the sequence $(x_n)\subseteq T(l^\infty)$ as above. This sequence is bounded but the image
$\left\{T^{-1}x_n\right\}$ is not, since $\Vert T^{-1}x_n\Vert_\infty=\sqrt{n}$.

You could also argue in this way: If $T^{-1}$ were bounded, then for every Cauchy sequence $(y_n)\in T(l^\infty)$, the sequence $(T^{-1} y_n)$ would also be Cauchy, and hence would converge to some $x\in l^\infty$ since $l^\infty$ is complete. But then, since $T$ is bounded, $y_n$ would converge to $Tx$. Then $T(l^\infty)$ would be complete, contradicting the fact that it is not closed in $l^\infty$ (this argument can actually be used to show that if $T:X\rightarrow Y$ is an isomorphism between a Banach space $X$ and some normed space $Y$ such that $T$ and $T^{-1}$ are bounded, then $Y$ is Banach).