%0 Journal Article %T Gohberg lemma, compactness, and essential spectrum of operators on compact Lie groups %A Aparajita Dasgupta %A Michael Ruzhansky %J Mathematics %D 2013 %I arXiv %X In this paper we prove a version of the Gohberg lemma on compact Lie groups giving an estimate from below for the distance from a given operator to the set of compact operators on compact Lie groups. As a consequence, we prove several results on bounds for the essential spectrum and a criterion for an operator to be compact. The conditions are given in terms of the matrix-valued symbols of operators. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0041v1