ASPECTS OF BOUNDED PERTURBATION THEORY

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the stability of certain properties of linear operators in locally convex topological vector spaces under perturbations by operators which are small in some sense. Section 3 deals with the very useful concept of Banach balls which was introduced by Raĭkov [9]. Some properties are discussed. The following section investigates the invertibility of certain operators generalizing results of Robert [10] and de Bruyn [2],[3]. These results are used extensively in the sequel. We go on to discuss Riesz operators. We obtain results stronger than those of de Bruyn [1] with regard to asymptotically quasi-compact operators in locally convex spaces. The proofs are basically adaptations of those from [1]. In the final section we observe some results concerning the range ad null space of an operator perturbed by bounded operators. We obtain a result very similar to an unproved theorem of Vladimirskiĭ [a] and point out their differences. MOS codes 4601, 4710, 4745, 4768, 4755.