Invariant Subspaces of Positive Quasinilpotent Operators on Ordered Banach Spaces

In this paper we find invariant subspaces of certain positive quasinilpotent operators on Krein spaces and, more generally, on ordered Banach spaces with closed generating cones. In the later case, we use the method of minimal vectors. We present applications to Sobolev spaces, spaces of differentiable functions, and C*-algebras.      

Invariant Maximal Positive Subspaces and Polar Decompositions

It is proved that invertible operators on a Krein space which have an invariant maximal uniformly positive subspace and map its orthogonal complement into a nonnegative subspace allow polar decompositions with additional spectral properties. As a corollary, several classes of Krein space operators are shown to allow polar decompositions. An example in a finite dimensional Krein space shows that there exist dissipative operators that do not allow polar decompositions.     

Nearly Invariant Subspaces Related to Multiplication Operators in Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions

We consider Hilbert spaces of analytic functions defined on an open subset of , stable under the operator M_u of multiplication by some function u. Given a subspace of which is nearly invariant under division by u, we provide a factorization linking each element of to elements of on the inverse image under u of a certain complex disc, for which we give a relatively simple formula. By applying these results to and u(z) = z, we obtain interesting results involving a H²-norm control. In particular, we deduce a factorization for the kernel of Toeplitz operators on Dirichlet spaces. Finally, we give a localization for the problem of extraneous zeros.Submitted: January 18, 2003 Revised: December 20, 2003     

Invariant Subspaces for Banach Space Operators with a Multiply Connected Spectrum

We consider a multiply connected domain where denotes the unit disk and denotes the closed disk centered at with radius r _j for j = 1, . . . , n. We show that if T is a bounded linear operator on a Banach space X whose spectrum contains ∂Ω and does not contain the points λ₁, λ₂, . . . , λ _n , and the operators T and r _j (T − λ _j I)⁻¹ are polynomially bounded, then there exists a nontrivial common invariant subspace for T ^* and (T − λ _j I)^*-1.     

Decomposition Methods in Banach Spaces via Supplemented Subspaces Resembling Pełczyński’s Decomposition Methods

Suppose that X and Y are Banach spaces complemented in each other with supplemented subspaces A and B. In 1996, W. T. Gowers solved the Schroeder–Bernstein problem for Banach spaces by showing that X is not necessarily isomorphic to Y. In this paper, we obtain some suitable conditions involving the spaces A and B to yield that X is isomorphic to Y or to provide that at least X ^m is isomorphic to Yⁿ for some m, n ∈ IN^*. So we get some decomposition methods in Banach spaces via supplemented subspaces resembling Pełczyński’s decomposition methods. In order to do this, we introduce several notions of Schroeder–Bernstein Quadruples acting on the spaces X, Y, A and B. Thus, we characterize them by using some Banach spaces recently constructed. Received: October 4, 2005.     

On non-surjective coarse isometries between Banach spaces

Assume that X, Y are real Banach spaces, Y has uniform convexity of type p (≥ 1), and f: X → Y is a standard coarse isometry. In this paper, we show that if

then there is a linear isometry U : X → Y so that

where is defined by

Representation properties of coarse isometries in free ultrafilter limits on are also discussed.     

Representations of Certain Banach C*-Modules

The possibility of extending the well known Gelfand–Naimark–Segal representation of *-algebras to certain Banach C*-modules is studied. For this aim the notion of modular biweight on a Banach C*-module is introduced. For the particular class of strict pre CQ*-algebras, two different types of representations are investigated.     

Periodic solutions of second order differential equations in Banach spaces

We use operator-valued Fourier multiplier theorems to study second order differential equations in Banach spaces. We establish maximal regularity results in L^p and C^s for strong solutions of a complete second order equation. In the second part, we study mild solutions for the second order problem. Two types of mild solutions are considered. When the operator A involved is the generator of a strongly continuous cosine function, we give characterizations in terms of Fourier multipliers and spectral properties of the cosine function. The results obtained are applied to elliptic partial differential operators. The first author is supported in part by Convenio de Cooperación Internacional (CONICYT) Grant # 7010675 and the second author is partially financed by FONDECYT Grant # 1010675     

Compactness in Vector-valued Banach Function Spaces

We give a new proof of a recent characterization by Diaz and Mayoral of compactness in the Lebesgue-Bochner spaces L_X^p, where X is a Banach space and 1≤ p<∞, and extend the result to vector-valued Banach function spaces E_X, where E is a Banach function space with order continuous norm. The author is supported by the ‘VIDI subsidie’ 639.032.201 in the ‘Vernieuwingsimpuls’ programme of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and by the Research Training Network HPRN-CT-2002-00281.     

Contractibility of the linear group in Banach spaces of measurable operators

We show contractibility to a point of the linear group for a wide class of symmetric spaces of measurable operators affiliated with several concrete non-atomic semifinite von Neumann algebras.Research supported by the Australian Research Council     

H-ULTRABORNOLOGICAL SPACES

Abstract

In this paper we define a special type of H-locally convex space—H-ultrabornological space -. We shall characterize those H-locally convex spaces in terms of linear maps and of inductive limits.     

Admissibility of Unbounded Operators and Wellposedness of Linear Systems in Banach Spaces

We study linear systems, described by operators A, B, C for which the state space X is a Banach space.We suppose that − A generates a bounded analytic semigroup and give conditions for admissibility of B and C corresponding to those in G. Weiss’ conjecture. The crucial assumptions on A are boundedness of an H^∞-calculus or suitable square function estimates, allowing to use techniques recently developed by N. Kalton and L. Weis. For observation spaces Y or control spaces U that are not Hilbert spaces we are led to a notion of admissibility extending previous considerations by C. Le Merdy. We also obtain a characterisation of wellposedness for the full system. We give several examples for admissible operators including point observation and point control. At the end we study a heat equation in X = L^p(Ω), 1 < p < ∞, with boundary observation and control and prove its wellposedness for several function spaces Y and U on the boundary ∂Ω.     

Invariant measures for the linear stochastic Cauchy problem and R-boundedness of the resolvent

We study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of the stochastic abstract Cauchy problem $$ \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}l} {dU\left( t \right) = AU\left( t \right)dt + BdW_H \left( t \right),\quad t \geqslant 0,} \hfill\ {U\left( 0 \right) = 0,} \hfill\ \end{array}} \right. $$ where A is the generator of a C₀-semigroup on a Banach space E, W_H is a cylindrical Brownian motion over a separable Hilbert space H, and $$ B \in \user1{\mathscr L}\left( {H,E} \right) $$ is a bounded operator. Assuming the existence of a solution U, we prove that a unique invariant measure exists if the resolvent R(λ, A) is R-bounded in the right half-plane {Reλ > 0}, and that conversely the existence of an invariant measure implies the R-boundedness of R(λ, A)B in every half-plane properly contained in {Re λ > 0}. We study various abscissae related to the above problem and show, among other things, that the abscissa of R-boundedness of the resolvent of A coincides with the abscissa corresponding to the existence of invariant measures for all γ -radonifying operators B provided the latter abscissa is finite. For Hilbert spaces E this result reduces to the Gearhart-Herbst-Prüss theorem. Dedicated to Giuseppe Da Prato on the occasion of his 70th birthday     

Hahn—Banach and Banach—Steinhaus theorems for convex processes

Our goal in this paper is to prove versions of the Hahn—Banach and Banach—Steinhaus theorems for convex processes. For the first theorem, we prove that each real convex process corresponds to a sublinear or superlinear functional and then we extend these. For the second theorem, we previously show that there is a seminorm naturally associated to the class of lower semi-continuous convex processes.     

Generalized inverses over Banach algebras

LetA be a matrix over a complex commutative unital Banach algebra. We give necessary and sufficient conditions forA to have a generalized inverse. Moreover, if the Banach algebra has a symmetric involution, these are also necessary and sufficient conditions forA to admit the Moore-Penrose inverse.Partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-8802593     

Subspaces of L p , p > 2, with unconditional bases have equivalent partition and weight norms

In this note we give a simple proof that every subspace of L_p, 2 < p < ∞, with an unconditional basis has an equivalent norm determined by partitions and weights. Consequently L_p has a norm determined by partitions and weights. Received: 31 January 2005     

Extension of Locally Defined Indefinite Functions on Ordered Groups

We give a definition of -indefinite function of archimedean type, on an interval of an ordered group with an archimedean point. We say that has the indefinite extension property if every continuous -indefinite function of archimedean type, on an interval of , can be extended to a continuous -indefinite function on the whole group .We show that if a group is semi-archimedean and it has the indefinite extension property, then with the lexicographic order and the product topology has the indefinite extension property. As a corollary it is obtained that the groups and with the lexicographic order and the usual topologies, have the indefinite extension property.To Professor José R. León, for his kind encouragement.Both authors were supported in part by the CDCH of the Univ. Central de Venezuela and by CONICIT grant G-97000668. Both authors were visitors at IVIC during the realization of this paper.Submitted: August 8, 2002 Revised: January 30, 2003     

Hypercyclic subspaces of a Banach space

Recently a lot of research has been done on hypercyclicity of a bounded linear operator on a Banach space, based on the hypercyclicity criterion obtained by Kitai in 1982, and independently by Gethner and Shapiro in 1987. By combining this criterion with one extra condition, Montes-Rodríguez obtained in 1996 a sufficient condition for the operator to have a closed infinite dimensional hypercyclic subspace, with a very technical proof. Since then, this result has been used extensively to generate new results on hypercyclic subspaces. In the present paper, we give a simple proof of the result of Montes-Rodríguez, by first establishing a few elementary results about the algebra of operators on a Banach space.