A common property of R(E,F) and B( R^n, R^m) and a new method for seeking a path to connect two operators

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For real Banach spaces \(E\) and \(F\), let \(B(E, F)\) be the space of all bounded linear operators from \(E\) to \(F\), and, for each nonnegative integer \(r\), let \(\Sigma_r\) be the subset of \(B(E, F)\) consisting of operators of rank \(r\). It is shown that (1) if \(F\) is infinite-dimensional, then \(\Sigma_r\) is pathwise connected for every \(r\), and (2) if \(E= \mathbb R^n\) and \(F= \mathbb R^m\) (resp., and, in addition, \(m\neq n\)), then \(\Sigma_r\) is pathwise connected with the dimension (of the associated tangent space at each operator in (\(\Sigma_r\)) equal to \((m+ n)r- r^2\) for \(0\leq r<\min\{n,m\}\) (resp., \(0\leq r\leq\min\{n,m\}\)). These are all proved by geometrically constructing specific paths connecting two arbitrary operators in \(\Sigma_r\).











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