Compact perturbations of -accretive operators in Banach spaces

This paper continues a discussion that arose twenty years ago, concerning the perturbation of an -accretive operator by a compact mapping in Banach spaces. Indeed, if is -accretive and is compact, then the boundary condition for and implies that is in the closure of the range of . Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this result is the proof itself, which does not appeal to the classical degree theory argument used for this type of problem.