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Let $I=[a,b]\subset ℝ$, let , let $u$ and $v$ be positive functions with $u\in L_{p^{\prime }}(I)$ e $v\in L_q(I)$ and let $T:L_p(I)\to L_q(I)$be the Hardy-type operator given by $$\left(Tf\right)\left(x\right)=v\left(x\right){\int }_a^{x}f\left(t\right)u\left(t\right)dt,x\in I.$$ We show that the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues$\lambda$of the non-linear integral system $$g\left(x\right)=\left(TF\right)\left(x\right){\left(f\left(x\right)\right)}_{\left(p\right)}=\lambda \left(T^{*}{g}_{\left(p\right)}\right))\left(x\right)$$ (where, for example,$t_{(p)}={|t|}^{p-1}\mathrm{sgn}(t)$is given by $$\begin{array}{cc}& \underset{n\to \infty }{lim}n{\widehat{\lambda }}_n\left(T\right)=c_{p,q}{\left({\int }_I{\left(uv\right)}^r{)}^{1/r}dt\right)}^{1/r},\text{for}1<p<q<\infty \hfill \\ & \underset{n\to \infty }{lim}n{\check{\lambda }}_n\left(T\right)=c_{p,q}{\left({\int }_I{\left(uv\right)}^{r}dt\right)}^{1/r}\text{for}1<q<p<\infty \hfill \end{array}$$ Here$r=\frac{1}{p^{\prime }}+\frac{1}{p}$, $c_{p,q}$ is an explicit constant depending only on $p$ and $q$, $\widehat{\lambda }(T)=\max (s{p}_n(T,p,q))$, ${\check{\lambda }}_n(T)=\min (s{p}_n(T,p,q))$ where $s{p}_n(T,p,q)$ stands for the set of all eigenvalues $\lambda$ corresponding to eigenfunctions $g$ with $n$ zeros.

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].