Copies of c 0 in the space of Pettis integrable functions with integrals of finite variation

Let (Ω,Σ,μ) be a complete finite measure space and X a Banach space. If all X-valued Pettis integrals defined on (Ω,Σ,μ) have separable ranges we show that the space of all weakly μ-measurable (classes of scalarly equivalent) X-valued Pettis integrable functions with integrals of finite variation, equipped with the variation norm, contains a copy of?c ₀ if and only if X does.     

The weak McShane integral

We present a weaker version of the Fremlin generalized McShane integral (1995) for functions defined on a σ-finite outer regular quasi Radon measure space (S,Σ, T, µ) into a Banach space X and study its relation with the Pettis integral. In accordance with this new method of integration, the resulting integral can be expressed as a limit of McShane sums with respect to the weak topology. It is shown that a function f from S into X is weakly McShane integrable on each measurable subset of S if and only if it is Pettis and weakly McShane integrable on S. On the other hand, we prove that if an X-valued function is weakly McShane integrable on S, then it is Pettis integrable on each member of an increasing sequence (S _l ) _l?1 of measurable sets of finite measure with union S. For weakly sequentially complete spaces or for spaces that do not contain a copy of c ₀, a weakly McShane integrable function on S is always Pettis integrable. A class of functions that are weakly McShane integrable on S but not Pettis integrable is included.     

A Banach lattice approach to convergent integrably bounded set-valued martingales and their positive parts

Denote by cf(X) the set of all nonempty convex closed subsets of a separable Banach space X. Let (Ω,Σ,μ) be a complete probability space and denote by (L¹[Σ,cf(X)],Δ) the complete metric space of (equivalence classes of a.e. equal) integrably bounded cf(X)-valued functions. For any preassigned filtration (Σi), we describe the space of Δ-convergent integrably bounded cf(X)-valued martingales in terms of the Δ-closure of in L¹[Σ,cf(X)]. In particular, we provide a formula to calculate the join of two such martingales and the positive part of such a martingale. Our object is achieved by considering the more general setting of a near vector lattice (S,d), endowed with a Riesz metric d. By means of Rådström's embedding theorem for such spaces, a link is established between the space of convergent martingales in S and the space of convergent martingales in the Rådström completion R(S) of S. This link provides information about the former space of martingales, via known properties of measure-free martingales in Riesz normed vector lattices, applicable to R(S). We also apply our general results to the spaces of Δ-convergent ck(X)-valued martingales, where ck(X) denotes the set of all nonempty convex compact subsets of X.     

Some properties of the injective tensor product of L[0,1] and a Banach space

Let X be a (real or complex) Banach space and 1<p,p′<∞ such that 1/p+1/p′=1. Then , the injective tensor product of L^p[0,1] and X, has the Radon-Nikodym property (resp. the analytic Radon-Nikodym property, the near Radon-Nikodym property, contains no copy of c₀, is weakly sequentially complete) if and only if X has the same property and each continuous linear operator from L^p′[0,1] to X is compact.     

A Grothendieck-type theorem for the space of totally measurable functions

Let Σ be a σ-algebra of subsets of a non-empty set Ω. Let X be a real Banach space and let X^* stand for the Banach dual of X. Let B(Σ, X) be the Banach space of Σ-totally measurable functions f: Ω → X, and let B(Σ, X)^* and B(Σ, X)^** denote the Banach dual and the Banach bidual of B(Σ, X) respectively. Let bvca(Σ, X^*) denote the Banach space of all countably additive vector measures ν: Σ → X^* of bounded variation. We prove a form of generalized Vitali-Hahn-Saks theorem saying that relative σ(bvca(Σ, X^*), B(Σ, X))-sequential compactness in bvca(Σ, X^*) implies uniform countable additivity. We derive that if X reflexive, then every relatively σ(B(Σ, X)^*, B(Σ, X))-sequentially compact subset of B(Σ, X)_c^~ (= the σ-order continuous dual of B(Σ, X)) is relatively σ(B(Σ, X)^*, B(Σ, X)^**)-sequentially compact. As a consequence, we obtain a Grothendieck type theorem saying that σ(B(Σ, X)^*, B(Σ, X))-convergent sequences in B(Σ, X)_c^~ are σ(B(Σ, X)^*, B(Σ, X)^**)-convergent.     

On certain spaces of vector measures of bounded variation

If (Σ,X) is a measurable space and X a Banach space we investigate the X-inheritance of copies of ?_∞ in certain subspaces Δ(Σ,X) of bvca(Σ,X), the Banach space of all X-valued countable additive measures of bounded variation equipped with the variation norm. Among the consequences of our main theorem we get a theorem of J. Mendoza on the X-inheritance of copies of ?_∞ in the Bochner space L₁(μ,X) and other of the author on the X-inheritance of copies of ?_∞ in bvca(Σ,X).     

Parametric H-principle for holomorphic immersions with approximation

We prove the parametric homotopy principle for holomorphic immersions of Stein manifolds into Euclidean space and the homotopy principle with approximation on holomorphically convex sets. We write an integration by parts like formula for the solution f to the problem LfΣ_|=g, where L is a holomorphic vector field, semi-transversal to analytic variety Σ.     

Existence and porosity for a class of perturbed optimization problems in Banach spaces

Let X be a Banach space and Z a nonempty closed subset of X. Let be an upper semicontinuous function bounded from above. This paper is concerned with the perturbed optimization problem supz∈Z{J(z)+‖x−z‖}, which is denoted by (x,J)-sup. We shall prove in the present paper that if Z is a closed boundedly relatively weakly compact nonempty subset, then the set of all x∈X for which the problem (x,J)-sup has a solution is a dense Gδ-subset of X. In the case when X is uniformly convex and J is bounded, we will show that the set of all points x in X for which there does not exist z₀∈Z such that J(z₀)+‖x−z₀‖=supz∈Z{J(z)+‖x−z‖} is a σ-porous subset of X and the set of all points x∈X?Z⁰ such that there exists a maximizing sequence of the problem (x,J)-sup which has no convergent subsequence is a σ-porous subset of X?Z⁰, where Z⁰ denotes the set of all z∈Z such that z is in the solution set of (z,J)-sup.     

KKM-type theorems for best proximity points

Let us consider two nonempty subsets A,B of a normed linear space X, and let us denote by 2^B the set of all subsets of B. We introduce a new class of multivalued mappings {T:A→2^B}, called R-KKM mappings, which extends the notion of KKM mappings. First, we discuss some sufficient conditions for which the set ∩{T(x):x∈A} is nonempty. Using this nonempty intersection theorem, we attempt to prove a extended version of the Fan-Browder multivalued fixed point theorem, in a normed linear space setting, by providing an existence of a best proximity point.     

Distribution and characteristic functions for correlated complex Wishart matrices

Let A(t) be a complex Wishart process defined in terms of the M×N complex Gaussian matrix X(t) by A(t)=X(t)X(t)^H. The covariance matrix of the columns of X(t) is Σ. If X(t), the underlying Gaussian process, is a correlated process over time, then we have dependence between samples of the Wishart process. In this paper, we study the joint statistics of the Wishart process at two points in time, t₁, t₂, where t₁<t₂. In particular, we derive the following results: the joint density of the elements of A(t₁), A(t₂), the joint density of the eigenvalues of Σ^-1A(t₁),Σ^-1A(t₂), the characteristic function of the elements of A(t₁), A(t₂), the characteristic function of the eigenvalues of Σ^-1A(t₁),Σ^-1A(t₂). In addition, we give the characteristic functions of the eigenvalues of a central and non-central complex Wishart, and some applications of the results in statistics, engineering and information theory are outlined.     

The combinatorics and extreme value statistics of protein threading

In protein threading, one is given a protein sequence, together with a database of protein core structures that may contain the natural structure of the sequence. The object of protein threading is to correctly identify the structure(s) corresponding to the sequence. Since the core structures are already associated with specific biological functions, threading has the potential to provide biologists with useful insights about the function of a newly discovered protein sequence. Statistical tests for threading results based on the theory of extreme values suggest several combinatorial problems. For example, what is the number of waysm′=# _t {L _i >x _i } _i ⁼⁰ⁿ of choosing a sequence {X _i } _i ⁼¹ⁿ from the set {1, 2, ...,t}, subject to the difference constraints {L _i =X _i+1?X _i >x _i } _i ⁼⁰ⁿ , whereX ₀=0,X _n+1=t+1, and {x _i } _i ⁼⁰ⁿ is an arbitrary sequence of integers? The quantitym′ has many attractive combinatorial interpretations and reduces in special continuous limits to a probabilistic formula discovered by the Finetti. Just as many important probabilities can be derived from de Finetti's formula, many interesting combinatorial quantities can be derived fromm′. Empirical results presented here show that the combinatorial approach to threading statistics appears promising, but that structural periodicities in proteins and energetically unimportant structure elements probably introduce statistical correlations that must be better understood.     

On the resolution of singularities in affine toric 3- varieties

Let $x_{\Sigma(\sigma)}=\ {\rm spec C[\check \sigma \cap Z}^{n}]$ be an affine toric variety given by the monoid algebra $\rm C[\check \sigma \cap Z^{n}]$ , $\check \sigma$ the negative dual cone of a lattice cone σ ? Rⁿ, Σ(σ) the fan consisting of the faces of σ. Assume XΣ(σ) to have only quotient singularities. For n = 3 we classify all pairs X_Σ′, X_Σ(σ) which occur in minimal models of equivariant resolutions Φ: X_Σ′ → - X_Σ(σ) sucn that the regular toric variety XΣ′ has Picard number at most 3.     

On holomorphic domination, I

Let X be a separable Banach space and u:X→R locally upper bounded. We show that there are a Banach space Z and a holomorphic function h:X→Z with u(x)<‖h(x)‖ for x∈X. As a consequence we find that the sheaf cohomology group Hq(X,O) vanishes if X has the bounded approximation property (i.e., X is a direct summand of a Banach space with a Schauder basis), O is the sheaf of germs of holomorphic functions on X, and q?1. As another consequence we prove that if f is a C¹-smooth -closed (0,1)-form on the space X=L₁[0,1] of summable functions, then there is a C¹-smooth function u on X with on X.     

The Bremermann–Dirichlet problem for unbounded domains of $${\mathbb{C}}^n$$

Given an unbounded strongly pseudoconvex domain Ω and a continuous real valued function h defined on bΩ, we study the existence of a (maximal) plurisubharmonic function Φ on Ω such that Φ|_b Ω = h. Supported by the MURST project “Geometric Properties of Real and Complex Manifolds”.     

Equivalence among various derivatives and subdifferentials of the distance function

For a nonempty closed set C in a normed linear space X with uniformly Gâteaux differentiable norm, it is shown that the distance function d_C is strictly differentiable at x∈X?C iff it is regular at x iff its modified upper or lower Dini subdifferential at x is a singleton iff its upper or lower Dini subdifferential at x is nonempty iff its upper or lower Dini derivative at x is subadditive. Moreover if X is a Hilbert space, then d_C is Fréchet differentiable at x∈X?C iff its Fréchet subdifferential at x is nonempty. Many characteristics of proximally smooth sets and convex closed sets in a Hilbert space are also given.     

On a characterization of the normal distribution by means of identically distributed linear forms

Let X₁, X₂,…, be independent, identically distributed random variables. Suppose that the linear forms L₁ = Σ_j=1^∞a_jX_j and L₂ = Σ_j=1^∞b_jX_j exist with probability one and are identically distributed; necessary and sufficient conditions assuring that X₁ is normally distributed are presented. The result is an extension of a theorem of Linnik (Ukrainian Math. J.5 (1953), 207–243, 247–290) concerning the case that the linear forms L₁ and L₂ have a finite number of nonvanishing components. This proof only makes use of elementary properties of characteristic functions and of meromorphic functions.     

On normal and compact operators on Banach spaces

For some normal operators (T=H+iK) on a Banach spaceX we study the dual space of the Banach algebraA (H, K) assuming thatX* is weakly complete and we study the decompositionX=Ker (T) ⊕ (TX)⁻ for spacesX ⊅c ₀.     

Cone characterization of Grothendieck spaces and Banach spaces containing <Emphasis Type="Italic">c</Emphasis><Subscript>0</Subscript>

In this article we study the embeddability of cones in a Banach space X. First we prove that c ₀ is embeddable in X if and only if its positive cone c₀⁺{c_0^+} is embeddable in X and we study some properties of Banach spaces containing c ₀ in the light of this result. So, unlike with the positive cone of ℓ ₁ which is embeddable in any non-reflexive space, c₀⁺{c_0^+} has the same behavior as the whole space c ₀. In the second part of this article we give a characterization of Grothendieck spaces X according to the geometry of cones of X*. By these results we give a partial positive answer to a problem of J.H. Qiu concerning the geometry of cones.     

Ergodic Banach spaces

We show that any Banach space contains a continuum of non-isomorphic subspaces or a minimal subspace. We define an ergodic Banach space X as a space such that E₀ Borel reduces to isomorphism on the set of subspaces of X, and show that every Banach space is either ergodic or contains a subspace with an unconditional basis which is complementably universal for the family of its block-subspaces. We also use our methods to get uniformity results. We show that an unconditional basis of a Banach space, of which every block-subspace is complemented, must be asymptotically c₀ or ?_p, and we deduce some new characterisations of the classical spaces c₀ and ?_p.     

The Pettis integral for multi-valued functions via single-valued ones

We study the Pettis integral for multi-functions defined on a complete probability space (Ω,Σ,μ) with values into the family cwk(X) of all convex weakly compact non-empty subsets of a separable Banach space X. From the notion of Pettis integrability for such an F studied in the literature one readily infers that if we embed cwk(X) into ?_∞(BX^∗) by means of the mapping defined by j(C)(x^∗)=sup(x^∗(C)), then j○F is integrable with respect to a norming subset of B?_∞^∗(BX^∗). A natural question arises: When is j○F Pettis integrable? In this paper we answer this question by proving that the Pettis integrability of any cwk(X)-valued function F is equivalent to the Pettis integrability of j○F if and only if X has the Schur property that is shown to be equivalent to the fact that cwk(X) is separable when endowed with the Hausdorff distance. We complete the paper with some sufficient conditions (involving stability in Talagrand's sense) that ensure the Pettis integrability of j○F for a given Pettis integrable cwk(X)-valued function F.