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Unbounded sequences in Banach spaces
Let $X$ be a Banach space and let $T$ be a bounded operator acting on $X$. Suppose for each linearly independent unbounded sequence $(x_n)$ in $E$, the sequence $(Tx_n)$ is unbounded. Must $T$ be ...
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Basic sequences in $\ell_p$
Let $p\in [1,\infty)\setminus\{2\}$. Suppose $(e_n)$ is a basic sequence in $\ell_p$ (or $L_p$) equivalent to the basis of $\ell_p$ ($L_p$). Is there a subsequence $(e_{n_k})$ such that $[e_{n_k}]$ is ...
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Perturbing upper-semi Fredholm operators
Let $T\colon X\to X$ be an upper-semi Fredholm operator acting on a $B$-space $X$ (the range of $T$ is closed and kernel is finite-dimensional) with complemented range. Suppose $S\colon X\to X$ is ...
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Is it true that $c_0(X)^* = \ell_1(X^*)$ ?
I'm trying to prove this that but I can't . Any help/reference ?
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Extension of weakly compact operators from $\ell_1$ into $c_0$
Is every weakly compact operator from $\ell_1$ into $c_0$ extendible
to any larger space? Equivalently, is every weakly compact operator from $\ell_1$ into $c_0$ extendible to $\ell_\infty$?
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weak*-closed subspaces
Recall that a closed subspace $Y$ of a Banach space $X$ is weakly complemented if the set
$$Y^{\bot}:= \{ f\in X^*| f(y) = 0 \forall y\in Y\}$$
is a complemented subspace of $ X^*$. For example, $c_0$ ...
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When is the norm of all positive operators on an ordered Banach space determined by their values on the positive cone?
I'm trying to investigate the interplay between the norm and cone of positive elements in ordered Banach spaces. In particular, I would like a nice characterization of when the norm of a positive ...
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Transpose of unbounded operators between Banach spaces.
Let $X$ and $Y$ be Banach spaces, and let $L : X \rightarrow Y$ be a unbounded operator with dense domain $\operatorname{dom}(L)$. We can then talk about the transposed operator
$L' : \operatorname{...
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Are weak and strong convergence of sequences not equivalent?
For some infinite-dimensional Banach spaces $E$, it is easy to find sequences $\langle x_i:i\in\mathbb N_0\rangle$ which converge to zero weakly but not in the norm topology, i.e. we have $\lim_{i\to\...
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Converse of the taylor's theorem in Banach Spaces
I would like to known if the following converse of the taylor's theorem is true:
Let $E$, $F$ Banach spaces, and $f:E\rightarrow F$ continuous. Suppose there are $k$ continuous functions $T_i: E \...
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Principle of Local Reflexivity
I'm having a hard time trying to understand a proof of the Principle of Local Reflexivity. I'm following the proofs from
1) Topics in Banach Space Theory (by Fernando Albiac, Nigel J. Kalton)
2) ...
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Uniqueness of dimension in Banach spaces
Let $\;\;\; \big\langle V,+,\cdot, \;\; ||\cdot|| \;\; \big\rangle \;\;\;$ be a Banach space over the field $\mathbb{K}$, which is either $\mathbb{R}$ or $\mathbb{C}$.
Suppose there exists a subset $...
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Weak convergence implying norm convergence
A surprising (to me) consequence of Hahn-Banach is that when a sequence converges weakly then there is another sequence made of (finite) convex combination which converges in norm (to the same element)...
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A criterion for the sum of two closed sets to be closed ?
Let $V$ and $I$ be two closed subsets of a Banach space $A$.
The set $V$ is a convex cone, and $I$ is a linear subspace of $A$. I also know that $V\cap I=\{0\}$.
I would like to know whether $I+V$ ...
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Unambiguous "weak" vector valued $L^{+\infty}$ spaces?
For some time, I have been stuck to the problem to be described as follows. The (perhaps not so commonly known) facts given here are taken from R. E. Edwards' Functional Analysis (Holt, Rinehart and ...
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Banach spaces with simple best approximate solutions
Let $\langle V,||.||\rangle$ be a Banach space such that:
$\;\;$ for all continuous linear maps $\: L : V\to V \:$ and members $v$ of $V$, there exists a unqiue member $u$ of $V$
$\;\;$ that ...
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Intersection of complemented subspaces of a Banach space
The following seems a very basic question in the theory of complemented subspaces of Banach spaces, but I was not able to find a reference, so I wish to ask it here.
Question. Let $X$ be a Banach ...
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Second conjugate operators to operators on $c_0$
I posted my question at MS but unfortunately it is still without a response, so let me ask it here.
We can think about a bounded operator $T\colon c_0\to c_0$ as a double-infinite matrix $[T_{mn}]_{m,...
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Square and cube?
Gowers and Maurey proved in their remarkable paper(s), that there is a Banach space $X$ such that $X$ is isomorphic to its cube $X\oplus X\oplus X$ but not to isomorphic to its square $X\oplus X$. ...
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M-bases for $C(K)$-spaces, $K$ -scattered
Recall that a biorthogonal system $\{(x_i, x^*_i)\colon i\in I\}$ in a Banach space $E$ is a M-basis if $\{x_i\}_{i\in I}$ is linearly dense in $E$ and $\{x_i^*\}_{i\in I}$ separates points. Let me ...
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$c_0$-direct sum of $\mathcal{K}(\mathcal{H})$
Let $\mathcal{K}(\mathcal{H})$ be the C*-algebra of compact operators on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$. I am interested in the ($c_0$-)sum
$A=\sum \mathcal{K}(\mathcal{H})$
of countably many ...
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Banach-Mazur applied to a Hilbert space
The Banach-Mazur theorem says that every separable Banach space is isometric to a subspace of $C^0([0;1],R)$, the space of continuous real valued functions on the interval $[0;1]$, with the sup norm.
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Projection exists ⇒ Uniformly convex?
I know that: Let X be a uniformly convex Banach space, $a\in X$ and $C\subset X$ closed and convex, then there is a unique $b\in C$ with $\left\Vert a-b\right\Vert=\inf_{x\in C}\left\Vert a-x \right\...
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Is the space of Hankel operators complemented in B(H)?
Let $H$ be $\ell^2({\mathbb N})$ and let $S:H\to H$ be the unilateral forward shift, so that $S^*S=I\neq SS^*$. Then a bounded operator $T:H\to H$ is Hankel if and only if it satisfies $TS=S^*T$.
Let ...
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What is an isomorphism of Banach spaces?
The nLab page on Banach spaces (http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Banach%20space) was recently criticised as being, in effect, too heavily biased to category theory (not of the Baire kind) and not enough ...
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Can $L^p(\mathbb{R})$ and $ L^q(\mathbb{R})$ be isomorphic?
Let $p,q \in (1,\infty)$ with $p\neq q$. Are the Banach spaces $L^p(\mathbb{R})$, $L^q(\mathbb{R})$ isomorphic?
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Complemented subspaces isomorphic to $c_0$ in $\mathcal{B}(E)$ [closed]
It is well known that neither
1) $c_0$ is isomorphic to a complemented subspace of $\mathcal{B}(H)$
nor
2) $c_0$ is a quotient of $\mathcal{B}(H)$
for a Hilbert space $H$. Can we replace $H$ above ...
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Codimension of $J(\omega_1)$ in its bidual
I am reading the paper
G. A. Edgar, A long James space, in: Measure Theory, Oberwolfach 1979, Lectures Notes in Math. 794, Springer-Verlag (1980) pp. 31-37.
and I am pretty confused by the remarks ...
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Basic sequences
Nowadays, we know that there exist Banach spaces without unconditional basic sequences. Do we know if something a bit milder holds? Namely, is that true each non-reflexive Banach space contains a ...
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Balls in spaces of operators
I am interested in some geometrical aspects of spaces $L(E)$, of bounded operators on a given Banach space $E$. I am unable to estimate if my problem deserves to be asked at MO, but let me try.
Is ...
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A separable Banach space and a non-separable Banach space having the same dual space?
I asked myself the following question when I was student just for curiosity. I asked a bit around (my professor, some researchers that I know), but nobody was able to give me an answer. So maybe it is ...
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tr(ab)=tr(ba), part 2.
This is a Banach space version of Andre Henriques' question
Trace Question
for Hilbert spaces. Let $a:X\to Y$ and $b:Y\to X$ be bounded linear operators between Banach spaces s.t. $ba$ and $ab$ ...
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How to prove the Hahn-Banach constructively
I am just wondering, how to prove the Hahn-Banach theorem constructively for a finite dimensional normed vector space.
Thanks in advance for any helpful answers.
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Quotient of \ell_1 by space of finite sequences
The following question came up during a reading of Rudin's functional analysis. I have not been able to find any information through searching online, but I apologise if the answer is obvious, or the ...
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Projective and injective tensor product
It is well known that for arbitrary Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$ we have that the dual space
$(X \hat{\otimes}_{\pi} Y)^* = \mathcal{L}(X, Y^*)$.
If we take $\ell^p$ and $\ell^q$ such that $p < q^{\...
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Recovering Schauder decompositions
The problem of Schauder decomposition of a given Banach space seems to play an important role in the geometry of Banach spaces, especially when one is interested in finite dimensional Schauder ...
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When is a metric space isometrically embeddable into some Banach space?
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Oops---I found the answer to the first question of mine here on Wikipedia---this is really classic material. I'll leave the question open for a bit, in case someone tells me something ...
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Preduals of B(E)
For a Hilbert space $H$ it is well known that the algebra $B(H)$ has a unique predual; the Banach space of trace class operators.
If $E$ is a Banach space then is it known whether
$B(E)$ is always a ...
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Space of compact operators
I am interested in the Banach space $\mathcal{K}=\mathcal{K}(\ell^2)$ of compact operators on $\ell^2$, however my questions can be stated for any $\mathcal{K}(E)$, where $E$ is an arbitrary Banach ...
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Infimum over all vector-valued L^2 spaces
Suppose I have a Banach space $E$ (which may be finite dimensional if you wish), a Hilbert space $H$ and a tensor $\tau \in H\otimes E$ in the algebraic tensor product. There are lots of ways to ...
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Infinite internal direct sums of subspaces
Given a compact Hausdorff space $K$ such that $C(K)$ is of density $\omega_1$. Suppose that every copy of $c_0(\omega_1)$ in $C(K)$ is complemented. Let $\{Y_\alpha\colon\alpha<\omega_1\}$ be a ...
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Example of a compact set that isn't the spectrum of an operator
This question is somewhat ill-posed (due to the word easy) and is triggered by idle curiosity:
Is there an easy example of a (separable, infinite-dimensional) Banach space $X$ and a nonempty ...
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Invertibility of frame/sampling operator on Bargmann-Fock spaces
Let $F_\alpha ^p (\mathbb{C}^n)$ for $1 < p < \infty$ and $\alpha > 0$ be the Bargmann-Fock space defined as the Banach space of entire functions $f$ such that $f(\cdot) e^{- \frac{\alpha}{2} ...
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Subspaces isomorphic to $C[0, \omega_1]$
Let $\omega_1$ be smallest uncountable ordinal. I am trying to understand the possible "large" subspaces of $C[0,\omega_1]$, namely those which are isomorphic to the whole space. Therefore I have the ...
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Best constant in comparison between Rademacher and gaussian averages?
Let $(g_k)$ be a sequence of independent standard gaussians variables on a fixed probability space $\Omega$. Let $(\epsilon_k)$ be a sequence of independent rademacher variables.
What is the best ...
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Integral in a σ−convex set.
Having had no (proper) answer to this question, I formulate the remaining case as a new question as follows. With $I=[0,1]$, let $E$ be a separable (real) Banach space, and let $\gamma:I\to E$ be ...
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Extending Continuous Sublinear maps on dense subsets of a Banach space
Suppose X' and Y are Banach spaces and X is a linear subspace dense in X'. Let T be a continuous map of X to Y satisfying:
(1) ||T(x+y)|| is less than or equal to ||T(x)||+||T(y)||.
Please prove ...
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Unique preduals up to (nonisometric) isomorphism?
It's well known that there are Banach spaces which has a unique isometric predual-- for example, any von Neumann algebra. As other questions on here (for example, Isomorphisms of Banach Spaces ) ...
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volume of the unit ball of the Banach space $\ell_1^n\otimes_{\epsilon}\ell_1^n$?
We denote by $\otimes_{\epsilon}$ the injective Banach tensor product.
Which is the asymptotic volume of the unit ball of the Banach space $\ell_1^n\otimes_{\epsilon}\ell_1^n$?
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Can the Sobolev norm of order 1/2 detect "jumps"?
We are given a function $f: \mathbb R^d \to \mathbb R$. For simplicity we can assume that $f$ is smooth and compactly supported. Is the Sobolev norm of order $\frac{1}{2}$ strong enough to prove an ...
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