Bicommutants and ranges of derivations

Let V be a vector space, V* its dual space and L(V) the algebra of all linear operators on V. For an operator a?∈?L(V) let a* be its adjoint acting on V*, and for a subset R of L(V) let R″ be its bicommutant. If R is a left noetherian subalgebra of L(V), then {a*: a?∈?R}″?=?{a*: a?∈?R″}. When R is singly generated R″ is described precisely. Further, for any two operators a, b?∈?L(V), b?∈?(a)″ if and only if the derivations d _a and d _b satisfy d _b (F(V))???d _a (F(V)), where F(V) is the set of all finite rank operators on V. In this case the inclusion d _b (L(V))???d _a (L(V)) also holds.     

C*-Nuclearity implies CPAP

In this paper we show: A C^*-algebra A with identity e is C^*-nuclear (i.e. “nuclear” in the sense of LANCE [3, p. 159] or “property T” in the sense of TAKESAKI [6] if and only if the identity operator id_A on A can be approximated in the strong operator topology by completely positive linear operators V from A into A of finite rank with norm one and V(e)=e. From which follows that every C^*-nuclear C^*-algebra (possible without identity) possesses the CPAP of LANCE [3, def. 3.5.]. This answers questions of LANCE [3, p. 173] and SAKAI [5, p. 64].     

Matrix regular operator space and operator system

We establish a relationship between Schreiner's matrix regular operator space and Werner's (nonunital) operator system. For a matrix ordered operator space V with complete norm, we show that V is completely isomorphic and complete order isomorphic to a matrix regular operator space if and only if both V and its dual space V^∗ are (nonunital) operator systems.     

The weak* similarity property on dual operator algebras

This paper is devoted to dual operator algebras, that isw ^*-closed algebras of bounded operators on Hilbert space. We investigate unital dual operator algebrasA with the following weak^* similarity property: for every Hilbert spaceH, anyw ^*-continuous unital homomorphism fromA intoB(H) is completely bounded and thus similar to a contractive one. We develop a notion of dual similarity degree for these algebras, in analogy with some recent work of Pisier on the similarity problem on operator algebras.     

Algebraic properties of dual Toeplitz operators on the orthogonal complement of the Dirichlet space

In this paper we investigate some algebra properties of dual Toeplitz operators on the orthogonal complement of the Dirichlet space in the Sobolev space. We completely characterize commuting dual Toeplitz operators with harmonic symbols, and show that a dual Toeplitz operator commutes with a nonconstant analytic dual Toeplitz operator if and only if its symbol is analytic. We also obtain the sufficient and necessary conditions on the harmonic symbols for SφSφψ= Sφψ.     

On the approximating local lifting property for operator spaces

In this paper, we define and study the approximately local lifting property for operator spaces. We show that an operator space V has the approximately local lifting property if and only if V^∗ is injective. This implies that an operator space V has the approximately local lifting property if and only if it has the local lifting property.     

Grothendieck’s theorem for operator spaces

We prove several versions of Grothendieck’s Theorem for completely bounded linear maps T:E→F ^*, when E and F are operator spaces. We prove that if E, F are C ^*-algebras, of which at least one is exact, then every completely bounded T:E→F ^* can be factorized through the direct sum of the row and column Hilbert operator spaces. Equivalently T can be decomposed as T=T _r +T _c where T _r (resp. T _c ) factors completely boundedly through a row (resp. column) Hilbert operator space. This settles positively (at least partially) some earlier conjectures of Effros-Ruan and Blecher on the factorization of completely bounded bilinear forms on C ^*-algebras. Moreover, our result holds more generally for any pair E, F of “exact” operator spaces. This yields a characterization of the completely bounded maps from a C ^*-algebra (or from an exact operator space) to the operator Hilbert space OH. As a corollary we prove that, up to a complete isomorphism, the row and column Hilbert operator spaces and their direct sums are the only operator spaces E such that both E and its dual E ^* are exact. We also characterize the Schur multipliers which are completely bounded from the space of compact operators to the trace class. Oblatum 31-I-2002 & 3-IV-2002?Published online: 17 June 2002     

The property (DN) and the exponential representation of holomorphic functions

It is shown that a nuclear Fréchet spaceE has the property (DN) if and only if every holomorphic function onE ^*, the strongly dual space ofE, with values in the strongly dual space of a Fréchet spaceF having the property ( ) can be represented in the exponential form. Moreover, it is shown that the space of holomorphic functions onC , the space of all complex number sequences, has a linearly absolutely exponential representation system. But the space of holomorphic functions onE ^* does not have such a system whenE is a nuclear Fréchet space that does not have the property (DN).Supported by the State Program for Fundamental Researches in Natural Sciences     

Linear functionals on nonlinear spaces and applications to problems from viscoplasticity theory

A classical result in the theory of monotone operators states that if C is a reflexive Banach space, and an operator A: C→C^* is monotone, semicontinuous and coercive, then A is surjective. In this paper, we define the ‘dual space’ C^* of a convex, usually not linear, subset C of some Banach space X (in general, we will have C^*⊃X^*) and prove an analogous result. Then, we give an application to problems from viscoplasticity theory, where the natural space to look for solutions is not linear. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Strongly irreducible operators on Banach spaces

This paper firstly discusses the existence of strongly irreducible operators on Banach spaces. It shows that there exist strongly irreducible operators on Banach spaces with w*-separable dual. It also gives some properties of strongly irreducible operators on Banach spaces. In particular, if T is a strongly irreducible operator on an infinite-dimensional Banach space, then T is not of finite rank and T is not an algebraic operator. On Banach spaces with subsymmetric bases, including infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces, it shows that quasisimilarity does not preserve strong irreducibility. In addition, we show that the strong irreducibility of an operator does not imply the strong irreducibility of its conjugate operator, which is not the same as the property in Hilbert spaces.     

The Choquet integral representation in the affine vector-valued case

LetX be any compact convex subset of a locally convex Hausdorff space andE be a complex Banach space. We denote byA(X, E) the space of all continuous and affineE-valued functions defined onX. In this paper we prove thatX is a Choquet simplex if and only if the dual ofA(X, E) is isometrically isomorphic by a selection map toM _m (X, E*), the space ofE*-valued,w*-regular boundary measures onX. This extends and strengthens a result of G. M. Ustinov. To do this we show that for any compact convex setX, each element of the dual ofA(X, E) can be represented by a measure inM _m (X, E*) with the same norm, and this representation is unique if and only ifX is a Choquet simplex. We also prove that ifX is metrizable andE is separable then there exists a selection map from the unit ball of the dual ofA(X, E) into the unit ball ofM _m (X, E*) which is weak* to weak*-Borel measurable.This work will constitute a portion of the author's Ph.D. Thesis at the University of Illinois.     

The smallness problem for -algebras

Akemann showed that any von Neumann algebra with a weak^* separable dual space has a faithful normal representation on a separable Hilbert space. He posed the question: If a C^*-algebra has a weak^* separable state space, must it have a faithful representation on a separable Hilbert space? Wright solved this question negatively and showed that a unital C^*-algebra has the weak^* separable state space if and only if it has a unital completely positive map, into a type I factor on a separable Hilbert space, whose restriction to the self-adjoint part induces an order isomorphism. He called such a C^*-algebra almost separably representable. We say that a unital C^*-algebra is small if it has a unital complete isometry into a type I factor on a separable Hilbert space. In this paper we show that a unital C^*-algebra is small if and only if the state spaces of all n by n matrix algebras over the C^*-algebra are weak^*-separable. It is natural to ask whether almost separably representable algebras are small or not. We settle this question positively for simple C^*-algebras but the general question remains open.     

On tree characterizations of <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis><Subscript>δ</Subscript>-embeddings and some Banach spaces

We show that a one-to-one bounded linear operator T from a separable Banach space E to a Banach space X is a G _δ-embedding if and only if every T-null tree in S _E has a branch which is a boundedly complete basic sequence. We then consider the notions of regulators and skipped blocking decompositions of Banach spaces and show, in a fairly general set up, that the existence of a regulator is equivalent to that of special skipped blocking decomposition. As applications, the following results are obtained. (a) A separable Banach space E has separable dual if and only if every w*-null tree in S _E * has a branch which is a boundedly complete basic sequence. (b) A Banach space E with separable dual has the point of continuity property if and only if every w-null tree in S _E has a branch which is a boundedly complete basic sequence. We also give examples to show that the tree hypothesis in both the cases above cannot be replaced in general with the assumption that every normalized w*-null (w-null in (b)) sequence has a subsequence which is a boundedly complete basic sequence. The research of S. Dutta was supported in part by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The research of V. P. Fonf was supported in part by Israel Science Foundation, Grant No. 139/03.     

On a class of stably finite nuclear C*-algebras

In this note we show that a separable C^*-algebra is nuclear and has a quasidiagonal extension by (the ideal of compact operators on an infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert space) if and only if it is anuclear finite algebra (NF-algebra) in the sense of Blackadar and Kirchberg, and deduce that every nuclear C^*-subalgebra of aNF-algebra isNF. We show that strongNF-algebras satisfy a Følner type condition.     

Evolution inclusions governed by subdifferentials in reflexive Banach spaces

The existence, uniqueness and regularity of strong solutions for Cauchy problem and periodic problem are studied for the evolution equation: where is the so-called subdifferential operator from a real Banach space V into its dual V*. The study in the Hilbert space setting (V = V* = H: Hilbert space) is already developed in detail so far. However, the study here is done in the V–V* setting which is not yet fully pursued. Our method of proof relies on approximation arguments in a Hilbert space H. To assure this procedure, it is assumed that the embeddings are both dense and continuous.     

Convex -closures versus convex norm-closures in dual Banach spaces

A subset Y of a dual Banach space X^* is said to have the property (P) if for every weak^*-compact subset H of Y. The purpose of this paper is to give a characterization of the property (P) for subsets of a dual Banach space X^*, and to study the behavior of the property (P) with respect to additions, unions, products, whether the closed linear hull has the property (P) when Y does, etc. We show that the property (P) is stable under all these operations in the class of weak^* -analytic subsets of X^*.     

On 𝒪ℒ∞ structures of nuclear C * -algebras

 We study the local operator space structure of nuclear C ^* -algebras. It is shown that a C ^* -algebra is nuclear if and only if it is an 𝒪ℒ_∞,λ space for some (and actually for every) λ>6. The 𝒪ℒ_∞ constant λ provides an interesting invariant

Duality and operator algebras: automatic weak* continuity and applications

We investigate some subtle and interesting phenomena in the duality theory of operator spaces and operator algebras, and give several applications of the surprising fact that certain maps are always weak^*-continuous on dual spaces. In particular, if X is a subspace of a C^*-algebra A, and if a∈A satisfies aX⊂X, then we show that the function x?ax on X is automatically weak^* continuous if either (a) X is a dual operator space, or (b) a^*X⊂X and X is a dual Banach space. These results hinge on a generalization to Banach modules of Tomiyama's famous theorem on contractive projections onto a C^*-subalgebra. Applications include a new characterization of the σ-weakly closed (possibly nonunital and nonselfadjoint) operator algebras, and a generalization of the theory of W^*-modules to the framework of modules over such algebras. We also give a Banach module characterization of σ-weakly closed spaces of operators which are invariant under the action of a von Neumann algebra.     

Narrow operators on lattice-normed spaces

The aim of this article is to extend results of Maslyuchenko, Mykhaylyuk and Popov about narrow operators on vector lattices. We give a new definition of a narrow operator, where a vector lattice as the domain space of a narrow operator is replaced with a lattice-normed space. We prove that every GAM-compact (bo)-norm continuous linear operator from a Banach-Kantorovich space V to a Banach lattice Y is narrow. Then we show that, under some mild conditions, a continuous dominated operator is narrow if and only if its exact dominant is so.     

James type results for polynomials and symmetric multilinear forms

We prove versions of James' weak compactness theorem for polynomials and symmetric multilinear forms of finite type. We also show that a Banach spaceX is reflexive if and only if it admits and equivalent norm such that there existsx ₀≠0 inX and a weak-^*-open subsetA of the dual space, satisfying thatx ^*⊗x ₀ attains its numerical radius. for eachx ^* inA. The first and third author were supported in part by D.G.E.S., project no. BFM 2000-1467. The second author was partially supported by Junta de Andalucía Grant FQM0199.