(APD)-property of -algebras by extensions of -algebras with (APD)

A unital -algebra is said to have the (APD)-property if every nonzero element in has the approximate polar decomposition. Let be a closed ideal of . Suppose that and have (APD). In this paper, we give a necessary and sufficient condition that makes have (APD). Furthermore, we show that if and or is a simple purely infinite -algebra, then has (APD).

     

Numerical radius distance-preserving maps on

Let be a complex Hilbert space, be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on , be the subset of all selfadjoint operators in and or . Denote by the numerical radius of . We characterize surjective maps that satisfy for all without the linearity assumption.

     

Automatic continuity of -derivations on -algebras

Let be a -algebra acting on a Hilbert space , let be a linear mapping and let be a -derivation. Generalizing the celebrated theorem of Sakai, we prove that if is a continuous -mapping, then is automatically continuous. In addition, we show the converse is true in the sense that if is a continuous --derivation, then there exists a continuous linear mapping such that is a --derivation. The continuity of the so-called - -derivations is also discussed.

     

Multiplicative bijections of

Let be a compact Hausdorff space which satisfies the first axiom of countability, let and let , be the set of all continuous functions from to If , ,is a bijective multiplicative map, then there exist a homeomorphism and a continuous map such that for all and for all

     

Global properties of the lattice of classes

Let be the lattice of classes of reals. We show there are exactly two possible isomorphism types of end intervals, . Moreover, finiteness is first order definable in .

     

Weak properties of weighted convolution algebras

Suppose that is a weighted convolution algebra on with the weight normalized so that the corresponding space of measures is the dual space of the space of continuous functions. Suppose that is a continuous nonzero homomorphism, where is also a convolution algebra. If is norm dense in , we show that is (relatively) weak dense in , and we identify the norm closure of with the convergence set for a particular semigroup. When is weak continuous it is enough for to be weak dense in . We also give sufficient conditions and characterizations of weak continuity of . In addition, we show that, for all nonzero in , the sequence converges weak to 0. When is regulated, converges to 0 in norm.

     

Vector measure Banach spaces containing a complemented copy of

Let a Banach space and a -algebra of subsets of a set . We say that a vector measure Banach space has the bounded Vitaly-Hahn-Sacks Property if it satisfies the following condition: Every vector measure , for which there exists a bounded sequence in verifying for all , must belong to . Among other results, we prove that, if is a vector measure Banach space with the bounded V-H-S Property and containing a complemented copy of , then contains a copy of .

     

Real rank and squaring mappings for unital -algebras

It is proved that if is a compact Hausdorff space of Lebesgue dimension , then the squaring mapping , defined by , is open if and only if . Hence the Lebesgue dimension of can be detected from openness of the squaring maps . In the case it is proved that the map , from the selfadjoint elements of a unital -algebra into its positive elements, is open if and only if is isomorphic to for some compact Hausdorff space with .

     

The Laplacian subalgebra of is a strongly singular masa

In this paper, we present a new class of strongly singular maximal abelian subalgebras living inside the -folded tensor product of the free group factor with itself (). The notions of strongly singular masas in type factors and that of asymptotic homomorphism were introduced by A. Sinclair and R. Smith. One of their first examples was the Laplacian subalgebra of the free group factor, generated by the sum of words of length 1 in . This subalgebra was known to be a singular masa. Using the results of A. Sinclair and R. Smith, we show that the unique trace-preserving conditional expectation onto the Laplacian subalgebra of is an asymptotic homomorphism, and hence the Laplacian subalgebra is a strongly singular masa for every .

     

Tensor products of -weakly closed nest algebra submodules

In this paper we prove that for any unital -weakly closed algebra which is -weakly generated by finite-rank operators in , every -weakly closed -submodule has . In the case of nest algebras, if are nests, we obtain the following -fold tensor product formula:

where each is the -weakly closed Alg -submodule determined by an order homomorphism from into itself.

     

Stability of -algebras associated to graphs

We characterize stability of graph -algebras by giving five conditions equivalent to their stability. We also show that if is a graph with no sources, then is stable if and only if each vertex in can be reached by an infinite number of vertices. We use this characterization to realize the stabilization of a graph -algebra. Specifically, if is a graph and is the graph formed by adding a head to each vertex of , then is the stabilization of ; that is, .

     

A Hilbert -module not anti-isomorphic to itself

We study the complexification of real Hilbert -modules over real -algebras. We give an example of a Hilbert -module that is not the complexification of any Hilbert -module, where is a real -algebra.

     

The Russo-Dye Theorem in a weakly closed -module

Suppose that is admissible. It is shown that the convex hull of unitary elements of a weakly closed -module contains the whole unit ball of if and only if and for any 0$">, 0$">.

     

On chaotic -semigroups and infinitely regular hypercyclic vectors

A -semigroup on a Banach space is called hypercyclic if there exists an element such that is dense in . is called chaotic if is hypercyclic and the set of its periodic vectors is dense in as well. We show that a spectral condition introduced by Desch, Schappacher and Webb requiring many eigenvectors of the generator which depend analytically on the eigenvalues not only implies the chaoticity of the semigroup but the chaoticity of every . Furthermore, we show that semigroups whose generators have compact resolvent are never chaotic. In a second part we prove the existence of hypercyclic vectors in for a hypercyclic semigroup , where is its generator.

     

-additive families and the invariance of Borel classes

We prove that any -additive family of sets in an absolutely Souslin metric space has a -discrete refinement provided every partial selector set for is -discrete. As a corollary we obtain that every mapping of a metric space onto an absolutely Souslin metric space, which maps -sets to -sets and has complete fibers, admits a section of the first class. The invariance of Borel and Souslin sets under mappings with complete fibers, which preserves -sets, is shown as an application of the previous result.

     

Lifts of - and -morphisms to -morphisms

Let be the Hochschild complex of cochains on and let be the space of multivector fields on . In this paper we prove that given any -structure (i.e. Gerstenhaber algebra up to homotopy structure) on , and any -morphism (i.e. morphism of a commutative, associative algebra up to homotopy) between and , there exists a -morphism between and that restricts to . We also show that any -morphism (i.e. morphism of a Lie algebra up to homotopy), in particular the one constructed by Kontsevich, can be deformed into a -morphism, using Tamarkin's method for any -structure on . We also show that any two of such -morphisms are homotopic.

     

``Lebesgue measure' on , II

Let be the set of real numbers, and define . We construct a complete measure space where the -algebra contains the Borel subsets of , and is a translation-invariant measure such that for any measurable rectangle , if , then , where is Lebesgue measure on . The measure is not -finite. We prove three Fubini theorems, namely, the Fubini theorem, the mean Fubini-Jensen theorem, and the pointwise Fubini-Jensen theorem. Finally, as an application of the measure , we construct, via selfadjoint operators on , a ``Schrödinger model' of the canonical commutation relations: , , .

     

An ultrafilter with property

Let be a -supercompact cardinal. We show that carries a normal ultrafilter with a property introduced by Menas. With it we give a transparent proof of Kamo's theorem that carries a normal ultrafilter with the partition property.

     

-bounded groups and other topological groups with strong combinatorial properties

We construct several topological groups with very strong combinatorial properties. In particular, we give simple examples of subgroups of (thus strictly -bounded) which have the Menger and Hurewicz properties but are not -compact, and show that the product of two -bounded subgroups of may fail to be -bounded, even when they satisfy the stronger property . This solves a problem of Tkacenko and Hernandez, and extends independent solutions of Krawczyk and Michalewski and of Banakh, Nickolas, and Sanchis. We also construct separable metrizable groups of size continuum such that every countable Borel -cover of contains a -cover of .

     

On the invariance of classes under composition

The necessary and sufficient condition for to be in the class for every of that class whose range is in the domain of is that be in .