Two classes of operators related to the perturbation classes problem
Let $SS$ and $SC$ be the strictly singular and the strictly cosingular operators acting between Banach spaces, and let $PΦ_+$ and $PΦ_+$ be the perturbation classes for the upper and the lower semi-Fredholm operators. We study two classes of operators $ΦS$ and $ΦC$ that satisfy $SS\subset ΦS \subset PΦ_+$ and $SC\subset ΦC\subset PΦ_-$. We give some conditions under which these inclusions become equalities, from which we derive some positive solutions to the perturbation classes problem for semi-Fredholm operators.