Composition operators on Dirichlet-type spaces

The Dirichlet-type space ) is the Banach space of functions analytic in the unit disc with derivatives belonging to the Bergman space . Let be an analytic self-map of the disc and define for . The operator is bounded (respectively, compact) if and only if a related measure is Carleson (respectively, compact Carleson). If is bounded (or compact) on , then the same behavior holds on ) and on the weighted Dirichlet space . Compactness on implies that is compact on the Hardy spaces and the angular derivative exists nowhere on the unit circle. Conditions are given which, together with the angular derivative condition, imply compactness on the space . Inner functions which induce bounded composition operators on are discussed briefly.

     

Normalizers of the congruence subgroups of the Hecke group II

Let . Let be an ideal of and let be the maximal ideal of such that . Then . In particular, if is square free, then is self-normalized in .

     

Pyramidal vectors and smooth functions on Banach spaces

We prove that if , are Banach spaces such that has nontrivial cotype and has trivial cotype, then smooth functions from into have a kind of ``harmonic" behaviour. More precisely, we show that if is a bounded open subset of and is -smooth with uniformly continuous Fréchet derivative, then is dense in . We also give a short proof of a recent result of P. Hájek.

     

On Burgess's theorem and related problems

Let be a graph. We determine all graphs which are -like. We also prove that if are graphs, then in order that each -like continuum be -indecomposable for some it is necessary and sufficient that if is a graph, then is not -like for some integer with . This generalizes a well known theorem of Burgess.

     

Open subgroups of

Let be a locally compact group and let denote the -algebra generated by left translation operators on . Let and be the spaces of almost periodic and weakly almost periodic functionals on the Fourier algebra , respectively. It is shown that if contains an open abelian subgroup, then (1) if and only if is norm dense in ; (2) is a -algebra if is norm dense in , where denotes the set of elements in with compact support. In particular, for any amenable locally compact group which contains an open abelian subgroup, has the dual Bohr approximation property and is a -algebra.

     

Extensions of orthosymmetric lattice bimorphisms revisited

This note furnishes an example illustrating the following two facts. On the one hand, there exist Archimedean Riesz spaces and with Dedekind-complete and an orthosymmetric lattice bimorphism with lattice bimorphism extension which is not orthosymmetric, where denotes the Dedekind-completion of . On the other hand, there is an associative -multiplication in the same Archimedean Riesz space which extends to a -multiplication in which is not associative. The existence of such an example provides counterexamples to assertions in Toumi, 2005.

     

A counterexample for approximable functions

Let be the unit disk. We show that for some relatively closed set there is a function that can be uniformly approximated on by functions of , but such that cannot be written as , with and uniformly continuous on . This answers a question of Stray.

     

Fixed point and selection theorems in hyperconvex spaces

It is shown that a set-valued mapping of a hyperconvex metric space which takes values in the space of nonempty externally hyperconvex subsets of always has a lipschitzian single valued selection which satisfies for all . (Here denotes the usual Hausdorff distance.) This fact is used to show that the space of all bounded -lipschitzian self-mappings of is itself hyperconvex. Several related results are also obtained.

     

Principal values for the Cauchy integral and rectifiability

We give a geometric characterization of those positive finite measures on with the upper density finite at -almost every , such that the principal value of the Cauchy integral of ,

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exists for -almost all . This characterization is given in terms of the curvature of the measure . In particular, we get that for , -measurable (where is the Hausdorff -dimensional measure) with , if the principal value of the Cauchy integral of exists -almost everywhere in , then is rectifiable.

     

Existence and uniqueness theorems for singular anisotropic quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems

On bounded domains we consider the anisotropic problems in with 1$"> and on and in with and on . Moreover, we generalize these boundary value problems to space-dimensions 2$">. Under geometric conditions on and monotonicity assumption on we prove existence and uniqueness of positive solutions.     

On the pointwise maximum of convex functions

We study the conjugate of the maximum, , of and when and are proper convex lower semicontinuous functions on a Banach space . We show that on the bidual, , of provided that and satisfy the Attouch-Brézis constraint qualification, and we also derive formulae for and for the ``preconjugate' of .

     

The Phillips properties

A Banach space has the Phillips property if the canonical projection is sequentially weak-norm continuous, and has the weak Phillips property if is sequentially weak-weak continuous. We study both properties in connection with other geometric properties, such as the Dunford-Pettis property, Pelczynski's properties and (V), and the Schur property.

     

Embedding obstructions and -complexes

The vanishing of Van Kampen's obstruction is known to be necessary and sufficient for embeddability of a simplicial -complex into for , and it was recently shown to be incomplete for . We use algebraic-topological invariants of four-manifolds with boundary to introduce a sequence of higher embedding obstructions for a class of -complexes in .

     

Purely infinite, simple -algebras arising from free product constructions. III

In the reduced free product of C-algebras, with respect to faithful states and , is purely infinite and simple if is a reduced crossed product for an infinite group, if is well behaved with respect to this crossed product decomposition, if and if is not a trace.     

On conjugation invariants in the dual Steenrod algebra

We investigate the canonical conjugation, , of the mod dual Steenrod algebra, , with a view to determining the subspace, , of elements invariant under . We give bounds on the dimension of this subspace for each degree and show that, after inverting , it becomes polynomial on a natural set of generators. Finally we note that, without inverting , is far from being polynomial.

     

Operators with bounded conjugation orbits

For a bounded invertible operator on a complex Banach space let be the set of operators in for which Suppose that and is in A bound is given on in terms of the spectral radius of the commutator. Replacing the condition in by the weaker condition as for every 0$">, an extension of the Deddens-Stampfli-Williams results on the commutant of is given.

     

A remark on the Bergman stability

Let , be a sequence of bounded pseudoconvex domains that converges, in the sense of Boas, to a bounded domain . We show that if can be described locally as the graph of a continuous function in suitable coordinates for , then the Bergman kernel of converges to the Bergman kernel of uniformly on compact subsets of .     

Finite dimensional injective operator spaces

We show that finite dimensional injective operator spaces are corners of finite dimensional -algebras .

     

Integral representation of linear functionals on spaces of unbounded functions

Let be a vector lattice of real functions on a set with , and let be a linear positive functional on . Conditions are given which imply the representation , , for some bounded charge . As an application, for any bounded charge on a field , the dual of is shown to be isometrically isomorphic to a suitable space of bounded charges on . In addition, it is proved that, under one more assumption on , is the integral with respect to a -additive bounded charge.