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Banach spaces, function spaces, real functions, integral transforms, theory of distributions, measure theory.

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separability of a certain space of continuous functions, II

No. Ady's construction still works, I think. Here's another, easier one: Choose an orthonormal basis $\{e_{n}\}$ of $H$. Since $\|e_{i} - e_{j}\| = \sqrt{2}$, the continuous functions $f_{n}(x) = \ma …
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Does there exist an isometry between $L^p$ and $l^p$?

Variants of this question show up often enough here on MO and over at math.SE that it seems worthwhile to collect some facts and links. I say isomorphic for linearly homeomorphic and isometric for iso …
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Projective Banach spaces

You essentially answered your first question yourself: the ground field is a (contractive) retract of any nonzero Banach space by Hahn-Banach. If there were a non-zero projective Banach space in your …
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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 compa …
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On a decomposition of L^1(G)

I'm answering Yemon's version of the question. The answer is trivially yes for discrete $G$ since $\ell^1(G) \subset \ell^2(G)$, so let me focus on the non-discrete case. The first observation to ma …
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Does a log-concave function on a convex set extend continuously to the boundary?

I do not see how $\log$-concavity should imply any form of continuity. For instance, if $\|\cdot\|$ is any semi-norm on the locally convex space $X$ then $f(x) = e^{-\|x\|}$ will be bounded and $\log$ …
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Why the name 'separable' space?

As far as I know the word separable was introduced by M. Fréchet in Sur quelques points du calcul fonctionnel, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 22 (1906), 1-74. The paper can be obtained via this link (Spring …
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Characterizations of amenable groups which use the space $\ell_1(G)$ and convolution

I like the following characterization, due to Kaimanovich and Vershik (conjectured by Furstenberg): A (countable) group is amenable if and only if there is an everywhere positive $\ell^{1}$-functi …