Representation of contractively complemented Hilbertian operator spaces on the Fock space

The operator spaces , , generalizing the row and column Hilbert spaces, and arising in the authors' previous study of contractively complemented subspaces of -algebras, are shown to be homogeneous and completely isometric to a space of creation operators on a subspace of the anti-symmetric Fock space. The completely bounded Banach-Mazur distance from to a row or column space is explicitly calculated.

     

The contraction principle for mappings on a metric space with a graph

We give some generalizations of the Banach Contraction Principle to mappings on a metric space endowed with a graph. This extends and subsumes many recent results of other authors which were obtained for mappings on a partially ordered metric space. As an application, we present a theorem on the convergence of successive approximations for some linear operators on a Banach space. In particular, the last result easily yields the Kelisky-Rivlin theorem on iterates of the Bernstein operators on the space .

     

A Semigroup Approach to Harmonic Maps

We present a semigroup approach to harmonic maps between metric spaces. Our basic assumption on the target space (N,d) is that it admits a barycenter contraction, i.e. a contracting map which assigns to each probability measure q on N a point b(q) in N. This includes all metric spaces with globally nonpositive curvature in the sense of Alexandrov as well as all metric spaces with globally nonpositive curvature in the sense of Busemann. It also includes all Banach spaces.The analytic input comes from the domain space (M,) where we assume that we are given a Markov semigroup (p_t)_t>0. Typical examples come from elliptic or parabolic second-order operators on Rⁿ, from Lévy type operators, from Laplacians on manifolds or on metric measure spaces and from convolution operators on groups. In contrast to the work of Korevaar and Schoen (1993, 1997), Jost (1994, 1997), Eells and Fuglede (2001) our semigroups are not required to be symmetric.The linear semigroup acting, e.g., on the space of bounded measurable functions u:MR gives rise to a nonlinear semigroup (P_t^*)_t acting on certain classes of measurable maps f:MN. We will show that contraction and smoothing properties of the linear semigroup (p_t)_t can be extended to the nonlinear semigroup (P_t^*)_t, for instance, L_p–L_q smoothing, hypercontractivity, and exponentially fast convergence to equilibrium. Among others, we state existence and uniqueness of the solution to the Dirichlet problem for harmonic maps between metric spaces. Moreover, for this solution we prove Lipschitz continuity in the interior and Hölder continuity at the boundary.Our approach also yields a new interpretation of curvature assumptions which are usually required to deduce regularity results for the harmonic map flow: lower Ricci curvature bounds on the domain space are equivalent to estimates of the L₁-Wasserstein distance between the distribution of two Brownian motions in terms of the distance of their starting points; nonpositive sectional curvature on the target space is equivalent to the fact that the L₁-Wasserstein distance of two distributions always dominates the distance of their barycenters.Dedicated to the memory of Professor Dr. Heinz Bauer     

Quantized Gromov-Hausdorff distance

A quantized metric space is a matrix order unit space equipped with an operator space version of Rieffel's Lip-norm. We develop for quantized metric spaces an operator space version of quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance. We show that two quantized metric spaces are completely isometric if and only if their quantized Gromov-Hausdorff distance is zero. We establish a completeness theorem. As applications, we show that a quantized metric space with 1-exact underlying matrix order unit space is a limit of matrix algebras with respect to quantized Gromov-Hausdorff distance, and that matrix algebras converge naturally to the sphere for quantized Gromov-Hausdorff distance.     

An automatic adjoint theorem and its applications

In this paper, we prove the following automatic adjoint theorem: For any sequence spaces and , if has the signed-weak gliding hump property and is an infinite matrix which transforms into , then the transpose matrix of transforms into , and for any and , . That is, the adjoint operator of automatically exists and is just the transpose matrix of . From the theorem we obtain a class of infinite matrix topological algebras , and prove also a -multiplier convergence theorem of Orlicz-Pettis type. The theorem improves substantially the famous Stiles' Orlicz-Pettis theorem.

     

Lipschitz compact operators

We introduce the notion of Lipschitz compact (weakly compact, finite-rank, approximable) operators from a pointed metric space X into a Banach space E. We prove that every strongly Lipschitz p-nuclear operator is Lipschitz compact and every strongly Lipschitz p-integral operator is Lipschitz weakly compact. A theory of Lipschitz compact (weakly compact, finite-rank) operators which closely parallels the theory for linear operators is developed. In terms of the Lipschitz transpose map of a Lipschitz operator, we state Lipschitz versions of Schauder type theorems on the (weak) compactness of the adjoint of a (weakly) compact linear operator.     

Homomorphisms on Function Lattices

In this paper we study real lattice homomorphisms on a unital vector lattice , where X is a completely regular space. We stress on topological properties of its structure spaces and on its representation as point evaluations. These results are applied to the lattice of real Lipschitz functions on a metric space. Using the automatic continuity of lattice homomorphisms with respect to the Lipschitz norm, we are able to derive a Banach-Stone theorem in this context. Namely, it is proved that the unital vector lattice structure of Lip (X) characterizes the Lipschitz structure of the complete metric space X. In the case of bounded Lipschitz functions, an analogous result is obtained in the class of complete quasiconvex metric spaces.     

A weak Asplund space whose dual is not weak fragmentable

Under the assumption that there exists in the unit interval an uncountable set with the property that every continuous mapping from a Baire metric space into is constant on some non-empty open subset of , we construct a Banach space such that belongs to Stegall's class but is not fragmentable.

     

A weakly Stegall space that is not a Stegall space

A topological space is said to belong to the class of Stegall (weakly Stegall) spaces if for every Baire (complete metric) space and minimal usco , is single-valued at some point of . In this paper we show that under some additional set-theoretic assumptions that are equiconsistent with the existence of a measurable cardinal there is a Banach space whose dual, equipped with the weak topology, is in the class of weakly Stegall spaces but not in the class of Stegall spaces. This paper also contains an example of a compact space such that belongs to the class of weakly Stegall spaces but does not.

     

Renorming James tree space

We show that the James tree space can be renormed to be Lipschitz separated. This negatively answers the question of J. Borwein, J. Giles and J. Vanderwerff as to whether every Lipschitz separated Banach space is an Asplund space.