Extremal perturbations of semi-Fredholm operators
Let T be a bounded operator on an infinite-dimensional Banach space X and Ω a compact subset of the semi-Fredholm domain of T. We construct a finite rank perturbation F such that min[dim N(T+F-λ), codim R(T+F-λ)] = 0 for all λ ∈ Ω, and which is extremal in the sense that F² = 0 and rank F = max{min[dim N(T-λ), codim R(T-λ)] : λ ∈ Ω.