In this paper we study operators originated from semi-B-Fredholm theory and as a consequence we get some results regarding boundaries and connected hulls of the corresponding spectra. In particular, we prove that a bounded linear operator T acting on a Banach space, having topological uniform descent, is a BR operator if and only if 0 is not an accumulation point of the associated spectrum $$\sigma _\mathbf{R}(T)=\{\lambda \in \mathbb {C}:T-\lambda I\notin \mathbf{R}\}$$ , where $$\mathbf{R}$$ denote any of the following classes: upper semi-Weyl operators, Weyl operators, upper semi-Fredholm operators, Fredholm operators, operators with finite (essential) descent and $$\mathbf{BR}$$ the B-regularity associated to $$\mathbf{R}$$ as in Berkani (Studia Mathematica 140(2):163–174, 2000). Under the stronger hypothesis of quasi-Fredholmness of T, we obtain a similar characterisation for T being a $$\mathbf{BR}$$ operator for much larger families of sets $$\mathbf{R}.$$
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