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We consider the Volterra integral operator $T:L^p\left({ℝ}^{+}\right)\to L^p\left({ℝ}^{+}\right)$ defined by $\left(Tf\right)\left(x\right)=v\left(x\right){ʃ}_0^{x}u\left(t\right)f\left(t\right)dt$. Under suitable conditions on u and v, upper and lower estimates for the approximation numbers $a_n\left(T\right)$ of T are established when 1 < p < ∞. When p = 2 these yield $li{m}_{n\to \infty }n{a}_n\left(T\right)={\pi }^{-1}{ʃ}_0^{\infty }\left|u\left(t\right)v\left(t\right)\right|dt$. We also provide upper and lower estimates for the ${\ell }^{\alpha }$ and weak ${\ell }^{\alpha }$ norms of (an(T)) when 1 < α < ∞.

In [2] and [3] upper and lower estimates and asymptotic results were obtained for the approximation numbers of the operator $T:L^p\left({ℝ}^{+}\right)\to L^p\left({ℝ}^{+}\right)$ defined by $\left(Tf\right)\left(x\right)≔v\left(x\right){ʃ}_0^{\infty }u\left(t\right)f\left(t\right)dt$ when 1 < p < ∞. Analogous results are given in this paper for the cases p = 1,∞ not included in [2] and [3].