Operator ideal norms on

Let be a real number such that and its conjugate exponent . We prove that for an operator defined on with values in a Banach space, the image of the unit ball determines whether belongs to any operator ideal and its operator ideal norm. We also show that this result fails to be true in the remaining cases of . Finally we prove that when the result holds in finite dimension, the map which associates to the image of the unit ball the operator ideal norm is continuous with respect to the Hausdorff metric.

     

Willmore Functionals

We prove some integral inequalities for immersed tori in the three sphere. The functionals considered are generalizations of the Willmore functional.

     

Metrizable and -metrizable betweenness spaces

It is proved that the theory of the class of all betweenness spaces metrizable by real-valued metrics does not coincide with the theory of the class of all betweenness spaces metrizable by metrics taking values in any ordered field. This solves a problem raised by Mendris and Zlatov{s}.

     

On the dimension of almost -dimensional spaces

Oversteegen and Tymchatyn proved that homeomorphism groups of positive dimensional Menger compacta are -dimensional by proving that almost -dimensional spaces are at most -dimensional. These homeomorphism groups are almost -dimensional and at least -dimensional by classical results of Brechner and Bestvina. In this note we prove that almost -dimensional spaces for are -dimensional. As a corollary we answer in the affirmative an old question of R. Duda by proving that every hereditarily locally connected, non-degenerate, separable, metric space is -dimensional.

     

The -algebras of infinite graphs

We associate -algebras to infinite directed graphs that are not necessarily locally finite. By realizing these algebras as Cuntz-Krieger algebras in the sense of Exel and Laca, we are able to give criteria for their uniqueness and simplicity, generalizing results of Kumjian, Pask, Raeburn, and Renault for locally finite directed graphs.

     

Distributions supported in a hypersurface and local

We give a necessary condition for a distribution with compact support in a hypersurface to be in the local Hardy space . We apply this condition to prove a result distinguishing two types of Hardy spaces of distributions on a smooth domain .

     

estimates for oscillatory integral operators

An endpoint boundedness result is established for a class of oscillatory integral operators.

     

Fourier multipliers on weighted -spaces

In his 1986 paper in the Rev. Mat. Iberoamericana, A. Carbery proved that a singular integral operator is of weak type on if its lacunary pieces satisfy a certain regularity condition. In this paper we prove that Carbery's result is sharp in a certain sense. We also obtain a weighted analogue of Carbery's result. Some applications of our results are also given.

     

coefficients

Let be a system of real smooth vector fields, satisfying Hörmander's condition in some bounded domain (). We consider the differential operator

where the coefficients are real valued, bounded measurable functions, satisfying the uniform ellipticity condition:

for a.e. , every , some constant . Moreover, we assume that the coefficients belong to the space VMO (``Vanishing Mean Oscillation'), defined with respect to the subelliptic metric induced by the vector fields . We prove the following local -estimate:

for every , . We also prove the local Hölder continuity for solutions to for any with large enough. Finally, we prove -estimates for higher order derivatives of , whenever and the coefficients are more regular.

     

Ultradifferentiable functions on lines in

It is well known that a function whose restriction to every line in is real analytic must itself be real analytic. In this note we study whether this property of real analytic functions is also possessed by some other subclasses of functions. We prove that if is ultradifferentiable corresponding to a sequence on every line in some `uniform way', then is ultradifferentiable corresponding to the sequence

     

-algebras generated by a subnormal operator

Using the functional calculus for a normal operator, we provide a result for generalized Toeplitz operators, analogous to the theorem of Axler and Shields on harmonic extensions of the disc algebra. Besides that result, we prove that if is an injective subnormal weighted shift, then any two nontrivial subspaces invariant under cannot be orthogonal to each other. Then we show that the -algebra generated by and the identity operator contains all the compact operators as its commutator ideal, and we give a characterization of that -algebra in terms of generalized Toeplitz operators. Motivated by these results, we further obtain their several-variable analogues, which generalize and unify Coburn's theorems for the Hardy space and the Bergman space of the unit ball.

     

Semigroup representations, positive definite functions and abelian -algebras

It is shown that every -representation of a commutative semigroup with involution via operators on a Hilbert space has an integral representation with respect to a unique, compactly supported, selfadjoint Radon spectral measure defined on the Borel sets of the character space of . The main feature is that the proof, which is based on the theory of positive definite functions, makes no use what-so-ever (directly or indirectly) of the theory of -algebras or more general Banach algebra arguments. Accordingly, this integral representation theorem is used to give a new proof of the Gelfand-Naimark theorem for abelian -algebras.

     

-algebras that are only weakly semiprojective

We show that the -algebra of continuous functions on the Cantor set is a weakly semiprojective -algebra that is not semiprojective.

     

A criterion for splitting -algebras in tensor products

The goal of the paper is to prove the following theorem: if , are unital -algebras, simple and nuclear, then any -subalgebra of the -tensor product of and , which contains the tensor product of with the scalar multiples of the unit of , splits in the -tensor product of with some -subalgebra of .

     

-compactness and automatic continuity in ultrametric spaces of bounded continuous functions

In this paper (weakly) separating maps between spaces of bounded continuous functions over a nonarchimedean field are studied. It is proven that the behaviour of these maps when is not locally compact is very different from the case of real- or complex-valued functions: in general, for -compact spaces and , the existence of a (weakly) separating additive map implies that and are homeomorphic, whereas when dealing with real-valued functions, this result is in general false, and we can just deduce the existence of a homeomorphism between the Stone-Cech compactifications of and . Finally, we also describe the general form of bijective weakly separating linear maps and deduce some automatic continuity results.

     

A counterexample concerning the relation between decoupling constants and -constants

For Banach spaces and and a bounded linear operator
we let such that

for all finitely supported and all , where is the sequence of Haar functions. We construct an operator , where is superreflexive and of type 2, with such that there is no constant with

In particular it turns out that the decoupling constants , where is the identity of a Banach space , fail to be equivalent up to absolute multiplicative constants to the usual -constants. As a by-product we extend the characterization of the non-superreflexive Banach spaces by the finite tree property using lower 2-estimates of sums of martingale differences.

     

The -theory of toric manifolds

Toric manifolds, a topological generalization of smooth projective toric varieties, are determined by an -dimensional simple convex polytope and a function from the set of codimension-one faces into the primitive vectors of an integer lattice. Their cohomology was determined by Davis and Januszkiewicz in 1991 and corresponds with the theorem of Danilov-Jurkiewicz in the toric variety case. Recently it has been shown by Buchstaber and Ray that they generate the complex cobordism ring. We use the Adams spectral sequence to compute the -theory of all toric manifolds and certain singular toric varieties.

     

The length of -pseudodifferential operators

We compute the length of the -algebra generated by the algebra of b-pseudodifferential operators of order on compact manifolds with corners.

     

An definition of interpolating Blaschke products

We give a new characterization of interpolating Blaschke products in terms of -norms of their reciprocals. We also obtain a characterization of finite unions of interpolating sequences.

     

The

ROSSER and SCHOENFELD have used the fact that the first 3,500,000 zeros of the RIEMANN zeta function lie on the critical line to give estimates on and . With an improvement of the above result by BRENTet al., we are able to improve these estimates and to show that the prime is greater than for . We give further results without proof.