Some remarks on Birkhoff-James orthogonality of linear operators (Q1987051)

The main result of the paper is the following. Let \(\mathbb{X}\) and \(\mathbb{Y}\) be Banach spaces with \(\mathbb{X}\) reflexive, and \(S_{\mathbb{X}}\) the unit sphere in \(\mathbb{X}\). Let \(T\) and \(A\) be compact operators from \(\mathbb{X}\) to \(\mathbb{Y},\) and \(M_T=\{x\in S_{\mathbb{X}}: \|Tx\|=\|T\|\}.\) Suppose either that \(M_T\) is a connected subset of \(S_{\mathbb{X}}\), or not connected but of the form \(D\cup (-D),\) where \(D\) is a nonempty connected subset of \(S_{\mathbb{X}}.\) Then \(T\perp_B A\) if and only if there is \(x\in M_T\) such that \(Tx\perp_B Ax.\) Several applications of this result are presented.