Let
\(\mathbb{S}\) be a cone in ?
n . A bounded linear operator
T:
L p (?
n ) →
L p (?
n ) is said to be
causal with respect to
\(\mathbb{S}\) if the implication
x(
s) = 0 (
s ε
W ?
\(\mathbb{S}\)) ? (
Tx) (
s) = 0 (
s ε
W ?
\(\mathbb{S}\)) is valid for any
x ε
L p (?
n ) and any open subset
W\(\subseteq\) ?
n . The set of all causal operators is a Banach algebra. We describe the spectrum of the operator
$(Tx)(t) = \sum\limits_{n = 1}^\infty {a_n x(t - t_n )} + \int {\mathbb{S}g(s)x(t - s)ds,} \quad t \in \mathbb{R}^n ,$
in this algebra. Here
x ranges in a Banach space
\(\mathbb{E}\), the
a n are bounded linear operators in
\(\mathbb{E}\), and the function
g ranges in the set of bounded operators in
\(\mathbb{E}\).