DISJOINTNESS OF OPERATOR RANGES IN BANACH SPACES

Abstract

Let X be a Banach space. A linear subspace of X is called an operator range if it coincides with the range of a bounded linear operator defined on some Banach space. The paper studies disjointness and inclusion properties of various types of operator ranges in a separable infinite dimensional Banach space X. One of the main results is the following: Let E be a non-closed operator range in X. Then X contains a non-closed dense operator range R with the properties E∩= {0}, and R is decomposable, i.e. R = M + N where M,N are closed and infinite dimensional and M ∩ N = {0} (Theorem 6.2).