We show that for any bounded operator $T$ acting on infinite dimensional, complex Banach space, and for any $varepsilon>0$, there exists an operator $F$ of rank at most one and norm smaller than $varepsilon$ such that $T+F$ has an invariant subspace
of infinite dimension and codimension. A version of this result was proved in cite{T19} under additional spectral conditions for $T$ or $T^*$. This solves in full generality the quantitative version of the invariant subspace problem for rank-one perturbations.
We show that a bounded quasinilpotent operator $T$ acting on an infinite dimensional Banach space has an invariant subspace if and only if there exists a rank one operator $F$ and a scalar $alphainmathbb{C}$, $alpha eq 0$, $alpha eq 1$, such that $T+
F$ and $T+alpha F$ are also quasinilpotent. We also prove that for any fixed rank-one operator $F$, almost all perturbations $T+alpha F$ have invariant subspaces of infinite dimension and codimension.
We show that for any bounded operator $T$ acting on an infinite dimensional Banach space there exists an operator $F$ of rank at most one such that $T+F$ has an invariant subspace of infinite dimension and codimension. We also show that whenever the
boundary of the spectrum of $T$ or $T^*$ does not consist entirely of eigenvalues, we can find such rank one perturbations that have arbitrarily small norm. When this spectral condition is not satisfied, we can still find suitable finite rank perturbations of arbitrarily small norm, but not necessarily of rank one.
We show that any bounded operator $T$ on a separable, reflexive, infinite-dimensional Banach space $X$ admits a rank one perturbation which has an invariant subspace of infinite dimension and codimension. In the non-reflexive spaces, we show that the
same is true for operators which have non-eigenvalues in the boundary of their spectrum. In the Hilbert space, our methods produce perturbations that are also small in norm, improving on an old result of Brown and Pearcy.
