Bourbaki

Definition 3

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Théories spectrales, chapter IV, § 2. Endomorphismes normaux

Let A be an algebra over C\mathbf{C} and E a complex topological vector space. Let π\pi be a representation of A in E. An element xx of E is said to be a cyclic vector for π\pi if the set of elements π(a)x\pi (a)x for a∈Aa\in A is total in E.

Let u∈L(E)u\in \mathscr{L}(E) be an endomorphism of E. It is said that x∈Ex\in E is a cyclic vector for uu if it is a cyclic vector for the identical representation of the stellar subalgebra generated by uu in L(E)\mathscr{L}(E).

Bourbaki sets the proof directly after the statement, and the corpus does not separate them, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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Machine translation of the English, by gpt-5-6-mini, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5.4, against glossary version 34. Not checked by a person. That model is a cut down version of the one the rest of this language was written by.