Blueprint:
s-Numbers of Bounded Linear Operators
between Banach Spaces

1 Setting and prerequisites

Throughout the blueprint, \(\mathbb {K}\) denotes a non-trivially normed field (in practice \(\mathbb {R}\) or \(\mathbb {C}\)), and \(X, Y, Z, W\) are normed spaces over \(\mathbb {K}\); a statement that needs completeness of the field or of a space says so. We write \(\mathcal{L}(X, Y)\) for the space of bounded linear operators \(X \to Y\) with the operator norm, and \(\mathbb {N}_0 = \{ 0, 1, 2, \dots \} \); all sequences are indexed starting from \(0\).

Each statement is accompanied by the name of the Lean declaration that formalises it. Every numbered statement and every proof here is formalised: the project compiles without sorry, so each result is verified by the Lean kernel. The few remarks without a Lean name say so.

Definition 1.1 Rank of a continuous linear map
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For \(S \in \mathcal{L}(X, Y)\) the rank of \(S\) is the cardinal dimension of its range,

\[ \operatorname {rank}(S) := \dim _{\mathbb {K}} \operatorname {range}(S) \in \mathrm{Card}. \]