Almost invariant half-spaces of operators on Banach spaces (Q2655384)

The authors introduce and study a variant of the Invariant Subspace Problem for Banach spaces: if \(X\) is a separable infinite-dimensional Banach space and \(T\in\mathcal{B}(X)\) is a bounded operator on \(X\), a closed subspace \(Y\) of \(X\) is called {\parindent=4mm \begin{itemize}\item[--] a half-space if it is both of infinite dimension and of infinite codimension; \item[--] almost invariant for \(T\) if there exists a finite-dimensional subspace \(F\) of \(X\) such that \(T(Y)\subseteq Y+F\). \end{itemize}} Is it true that any \(T\in\mathcal{B}(X)\) has an almost-invariant half-space? The authors give a sufficient condition for a quasinilpotent operator to have almost-invariant half-spaces, and apply it to show that quasinilpotent weighted shifts on \(\ell_p\) or \(c_0\) do have almost-invariant half-spaces. In particular, every Donoghue operator has almost-invariant half-spaces, although it does not have invariant half-spaces.