@misc{10481/70686, year = {2019}, month = {5}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/70686}, abstract = {The aim of this paper is to study the numerical index with respect to an operator between Banach spaces. Given Banach spaces X and Y, and a norm-one operator G∈L(X,Y) (the space of all bounded linear operators from X to Y), the numerical index with respect to G, nG(X,Y), is the greatest constant k≥0 such that k∥T∥≤infδ>0sup{|y∗(Tx)|:y∗∈Y∗,x∈X,∥y∗∥=∥x∥=1,Rey∗(Gx)>1−δ} for every T∈L(X,Y). Equivalently, nG(X,Y) is the greatest constant k≥0 such that max∣∣w∣∣=1∥G+wT∥≥1+k∥T∥ for all T∈L(X,Y). Here, we first provide some tools to study the numerical index with respect to G. Next, we present some results on the set N(L(X,Y)) of the values of the numerical indices with respect to all norm-one operators in L(X,Y). For instance, N(L(X,Y))={0} when X or Y is a real Hilbert space of dimension greater than 1 and also when X or Y is the space of bounded or compact operators on an infinite-dimensional real Hilbert space. In the real case N(L(X,ℓp))⊆[0,Mp]andN(L(ℓp,Y))⊆[0,Mp] for 1