The Riesz decomposition property for the space of regular operators

If and are Banach lattices such that is separable and has the countable interpolation property, then the space of all continuous regular operators has the Riesz decomposition property. This result is a positive answer to a conjecture posed by A. W. Wickstead.

     

Le degré de Lindelöf est -invariant

Two Tychonoff spaces and are said to be -equivalent if and are linearly homeomorphic. It is shown that if and are -equivalent, then the Lindelöf numbers of and are the same. The proof given is a strengthening of the one given by N.V. Velichko to show that the Lindelöf property is -invariant.

     

A new characterisation of the analytic Radon-Nikodym property

We show that a separable complex Banach space has the analytic Radon-Nikodym property if and only if there exists , such that the space consisting of all -bounded -valued analytic martingales is separable.

     

Free actions of -groups on products of lens spaces

Let be an odd prime number. We prove that if acts freely on a product of equidimensional lens spaces, then . This settles a special case of a conjecture due to C. Allday. We also find further restrictions on non-abelian -groups acting freely on a product of lens spaces. For actions inducing a trivial action on homology, we reach the following characterization: A -group can act freely on a product of lens spaces with a trivial action on homology if and only if and has the -extension property. The main technique is to study group extensions associated to free actions.

     

Hahn-Banach operators

We consider real spaces only.

Definition. An operator between Banach spaces and is called a Hahn-Banach operator if for every isometric embedding of the space into a Banach space there exists a norm-preserving extension of to .

A geometric property of Hahn-Banach operators of finite rank acting between finite-dimensional normed spaces is found. This property is used to characterize pairs of finite-dimensional normed spaces such that there exists a Hahn-Banach operator of rank . The latter result is a generalization of a recent result due to B. L. Chalmers and B. Shekhtman.

     

Between the Lindelöf property and countable tightness

We consider a class of compact spaces for which the space of probability Radon measures on has countable tightness in the topology. We show that that class contains those compact zero-dimensional spaces for which is weakly Lindelöf, and, under MA + CH, all compact spaces with having property (C) of Corson.

     

Iterative approximation of fixed points of Lipschitz pseudocontractive maps

Let be a -uniformly smooth Banach space possessing a weakly sequentially continuous duality map (e.g., ). Let be a Lipschitzian pseudocontractive selfmapping of a nonempty closed convex and bounded subset of and let be arbitrary. Then the iteration sequence defined by , converges strongly to a fixed point of , provided that and have certain properties. If is a Hilbert space, then converges strongly to the unique fixed point of closest to .

     

On a characterization of the maximal ideal spaces of algebraically closed commutative -algebras

Let be the algebra of all complex-valued continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space . We say that is algebraically closed if each monic polynomial equation over has a continuous solution. We give a necessary and sufficient condition for to be algebraically closed for a locally connected compact Hausdorff space . In this case, it is proved that is algebraically closed if each element of is the square of another. We also give a characterization of a first-countable compact Hausdorff space such that is algebraically closed.

     

A remark on a theorem of J. Tits

Let be a rank two Chevalley group and be the corresponding Moufang polygon. J. Tits proved that is the universal completion of the amalgam formed by three subgroups of : the stabilizer of a point of , the stabilizer of a line incident with , and the stabilizer of an apartment passing through and . We prove a slightly stronger result, in which the exact structure of is not required. Our result can be used in conjunction with the ``weak -pair" theorem of Delgado and Stellmacher in order to identify subgroups of finite groups generated by minimal parabolics.

     

Sufficient conditions for a linear functional to be multiplicative

A commutative Banach algebra is said to have the property if the following holds: Let be a closed subspace of finite codimension such that, for every , the Gelfand transform has at least distinct zeros in , the maximal ideal space of . Then there exists a subset of of cardinality such that vanishes on , the set of common zeros of . In this paper we show that if is compact and nowhere dense, then , the uniform closure of the space of rational functions with poles off , has the property for all . We also investigate the property for the algebra of real continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space.

     

Nonstandard topologies with bases that consist only of standard sets

Let be an infinite set, a set of pseudo-metrics on and If is limited (finite) for every and every then, for each we can define a pseudo-metric on by writing st We investigate the conditions under which the topology induced on by has a basis consisting only of standard sets. This investigation produces a theory with a variety of applications in functional analysis. For example, a specialization of some of our general results will yield such classical compactness theorems as Schauder's theorem, Mazur's theorem, and Gelfand-Philips's theorem.

     

Similarity to a contraction and hypercontractivity of composition operators

On the Hardy spaces with , we consider the composition operators induced by analytic self-maps of the open unit disc . First, we characterize those which are similar to contractions. Then, we give some necessary and sufficient conditions for them to be hypercontractive. Finally, we prove that, among those ones, only the zero-symbol composition operator sends into with a norm less than or equal to .

     

Local dual spaces of Banach spaces of vector-valued functions

We show that is a local dual of , and is a local dual of , where is a Banach space. A local dual space of a Banach space is a subspace of so that we have a local representation of in satisfying the properties of the representation of in provided by the principle of local reflexivity.

     

Cesàro function spaces fail the fixed point property

The Cesàro sequence spaces , are reflexive but they have the fixed point property. In this paper we prove that in contrast to these sequence spaces the corresponding Cesàro function spaces on both and for are not reflexive and they fail to have the fixed point property.

     

Volume growth and parabolicity

We characterize -parabolicity of a noncompact complete Riemannian manifold in terms of the volume growth of under very weak assumptions on . Some of the results also apply to the setting of metric measure spaces.

     

Finite groups and the fixed points of coprime automorphisms

Let be a prime, and let be a finite -group acted on by an elementary abelian -group . The following results are proved:

1. If and is nilpotent of class at most for any , then the group is nilpotent of -bounded class.

2. If and is nilpotent of class at most for any , then the derived group is nilpotent of -bounded class.

     

On birational morphisms between pencils of Del Pezzo surfaces

Let and be two Del Pezzo fibrations of degrees , respectively. Assume that and differ by a flop. Then we prove that and give a short list of values of other basic numerical invariants of and .

     

A matrix-valued Choquet-Deny theorem

Let be a positive matrix-valued measure on a locally compact abelian group such that is the identity matrix. We give a necessary and sufficient condition on for the absence of a bounded non-constant matrix-valued function on satisfying the convolution equation . This extends Choquet and Deny's theorem for real-valued functions on .

     

Coarse embeddings of metric spaces into Banach spaces

There are several characterizations of coarse embeddability of locally finite metric spaces into a Hilbert space. In this note we give such characterizations for general metric spaces. By applying these results to the spaces , we get their coarse embeddability into a Hilbert space for . This together with a theorem by Banach and Mazur yields that coarse embeddability into and into are equivalent when . A theorem by G.Yu and the above allow us to extend to , , the range of spaces, coarse embeddings into which is guaranteed for a finitely generated group to satisfy the Novikov Conjecture.

     

A reflexivity problem concerning the

Let be a compact Hausdorff space and let be a separable Hilbert space. We prove that the group of all order automorphisms of the -algebra is algebraically reflexive.