Measures of non-compactness of operators in Banach lattices (Q1106446)

Let E and F be complex Banach lattices and T an order bounded linear operator from E to F. The ball measure of non-compactness \(\beta\) (T) [e.g., see \textit{K. Deimling}, Nonlinear Functional Analysis (1985; Zbl 0559.47040)] is studied utilizing a measure of non-semicompactness introduced in this paper. For certain classes of operators \(\rho (T)=\beta (T)\). This is used to show that for appropriate AM-compact operators \(\nu\) (S)\(\leq \beta (T)\) if \(0\leq S\leq T\), and that the essential spectral radius is also monotone. In addition, it is shown that the essential spectral radius is in the complement of the Fredholm domain. Examples are provided to show that these results are not true in more general settings. The paper includes various formulas for explicit computation of \(\rho\) (T). Results for special classes of operators such as the disjointness preserving operators are provided.