CHARACTERIZATIONS OF STRICTLY SINGULAR AND STRICTLY COSINGULAR OPERATORS BY PERTURBATION CLASSES

We consider a class of operators that contains the strictly singular operators and it is contained in the perturbation class of the upper semi-Fredholm operators PΦ+. We show that this class is strictly contained in PΦ+, solving a question of Friedman. We obtain similar results for the strictly cosingular operators and the perturbation class of the lower semi-Fredholm operators PΦ−. We also characterize in terms of PΦ+ and in terms of PΦ−. As a consequence, we show that and are the biggest operator ideals contained in PΦ+ and PΦ−, respectively.

On the operators which are invertible modulo an operator ideal

We study the semigroups l and r of left and right invertible operators modulo an operator ideal , respectively. We show that these semigroups allow us to obtain useful characterisations of the radical rad of  For example, rad; is the perturbation class for l and r.

Lifting unconditionally converging series and semigroups of operators

We introduce and study two semigroups of operators u+ and u_, defined in terms of unconditionally converging series. We prove a lifting result for unconditionally converging series that allows us to show examples of operators in u+. We obtain perturbative characterisations for these semigroups and, as a consequence, we derive characterisations for some classes of Banach spaces in terms of the semigroups. If u+(X, Y) is non-empty and every copy of c0 in Y is complemented, then the same is true in X. We solve the perturbation class problem for the semigroup u_, and we show that a Banach space X contains no copies of ℓ∞ if and only if for every equivalent norm |·| on X, the semiembeddings of (X, |·|) belong to u+.