Operator ranges in Banach spaces with weak star separable dual (Q6542904)

Let \(E\) be a Banach space. A subspace \(R\) of \(E\) is said to be an operator range if there are a Banach space \(X\) and a bounded linear operator \(T:X \rightarrow E\) such that \(T(X)=R\).\N\NA result by \textit{V. Shevchik} [Sov. Math. Dokl. 25, 454--456 (1982; Zbl 0514.46009)] states that if \(E\) is separable and \(R\) is a proper dense operator range in \(E\), then there is a one-to-one operator \(T:E \rightarrow E\) with dense range such that \(T(E)\cap R=\{0\}\).\par The authors prove several results along this line for Banach spaces with weak\(^*\)-separable dual, which also yield some characterizations of such spaces.