Norm or numerical radius attaining polynomials on C(K)

Let X, Y be compact Hausdorff spaces and B£(X), B*(Y)f 0 < a, |3 < 12 (the first uncountable ordinal), the associated Banach spaces of bounded real-valued Baire functions of classes a and 0. If B*(X) =£ B*AX) (which is the case if a =£ 0 and X is not dispersed), then B*(X) is neither linearly isometric to BQ(Y) nor equivalent to B^(Y) in several other ways. B^(X) is linearly isometric to B%(Y) if and only if X is Baire isomorphic to Y. For 1 < a < ft the maximal ideal space of B£(X) for a nondispersed compact space X As not an F-space. 1. Let I bea compact (more generally, completely regular) Hausdorff space and C(X) the space of continuous real-valued functions on X. Let B0(X) = C(X)9 and inductively define Ba(X) for each ordinal a < Q, (Q denotes the first uncountable ordinal) to be the space of pointwise limits of sequences of functions in U | < a B^(X). Let B*(X) be the space of bounded functions contained in Ba(X). With the pointwise operations Ba(X) and B*(X) are lattice-ordered algebras. With the supremum norm B*(X) is a Banach algebra (see [4, §41]). The Baire sets of X of multiplicative class a, denoted by Za(X)9 are defined to be the zero sets of functions in B*(X). Those of additive class a, denoted by CZa(X), are defined as the complements of sets in Za(X). Finally, those of ambiguous class a, denoted by Aa(X), are the sets which are simultaneously in Za(X) and CZa(X). With the set-theoretic operations of union and intersection, Aa(X) is a Boolean algebra for each a < 12. The sets of exactly ambiguous class a, denoted by EAa(X are those in ^ a ( Z ) U ^ < a Ac(X). The sets of exactly additive and exactly multiplicative class a are defined analogously. The class of all Baire subsets of X is AMS (MOS) subject classifications (1970). Primary 06A65, 26A21, 28A05, 46E1S, 46E30, 46J10, 54C50, 54H05; Secondary 04A15.

This chapter is about metric spaces, an abstract generalization of the real line that allows discussion of open and closed sets, limits, convergence, continuity, and similar properties. The usual distance function for the real line becomes an example of a metric. The other notions are defined in terms of the metric. The advantage of the generalization is that proofs of certain properties of the real line immediately go over to all other examples. Section 1 gives the definition of metric space and open set, and it lists a number of important examples, including Euclidean spaces and certain spaces of functions. Sections 2 through 4 develop properties of open and closed sets, continuity, and convergence of sequences that are simple generalizations of known facts about $\mathbb{R}$. Section 5 shows how a subset of a metric space can be made into a metric space so that the restriction of a continuous function from the whole space to the subset remains continuous. It also shows that three natural metrics for the product of two metric spaces lead to the same open sets, continuous functions, and convergent sequences. Section 6 shows that any metric space is “Hausdorff,” “regular,” and “normal,” and it goes on to exhibit three different countability hypotheses about a metric space as equivalent. A metric space with these properties is called “separable.” Section 7 concerns compactness and completeness. A metric space is defined to be “compact” if every open cover has a finite subcover. This property is equivalent to the condition that every sequence has a convergent subsequence. The Heine–Borel Theorem says that the compact sets of $\mathbb{R}^n$ are exactly the closed bounded sets. A number of the results early in Chapter I that were proved by the Bolzano–Weierstrass Theorem in the context of the real line are seen to extend to any compact metric space. A metric space is “complete” if every Cauchy sequence is convergent. A metric space is compact if and only if it is complete and “totally bounded.” Section 8 concerns connectedness, which is an abstraction of the property of an interval of the line that accounts for the Intermediate Value Theorem. Section 9 proves a fundamental result known as the Baire Category Theorem. A sample consequence of the theorem is that the pointwise limit of a sequence of continuous complex-valued functions on a complete metric space must have points where it is continuous. Section 10 studies the spaces of real-valued and complex-valued continuous functions on a compact metric space. A generalization of Ascoli's Theorem from the setting of Chapter I provides a characterization of compact sets in either of these spaces of continuous functions. A generalization of the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem, known as the Stone–Weierstrass Theorem, gives sufficient conditions for a subalgebra of either of these spaces of continuous functions to be dense. One consequence is that these spaces of continuous functions are separable. Section 11 constructs the “completion” of a metric space out of Cauchy sequences in the given space. The result is a complete metric space and a distance-preserving map of the given metric space into the completion such that the image is dense.

On the existence of continuous (approximate) roots of algebraic equations

Function-space compactifications of function spaces

Let X be a compact Hausdorff space and C(X) the Banach space of all real-valued continuous functions on X under the sup norm. If H is a linear subspace of C(X) which separates the points of X and contains the constant functions, then it is well known that there exists a smallest closed subset of X, called the Silov boundary of X relative to H and denoted by OHX, with the property that each hCH attains its maximum value on afHX. A point xeX is called an H-extremal point if the only positive linear functional u on C(X) such that u(h) = h(x) for all hCH is the evaluation functional 4. where O.,(f) =f(x) for all fE C(X). The set of H-extremal points of X is called the Choquet boundary of X relative to H and will be denoted by VHX. H. Bauer has shown [1, 2.1 ] that the Choquet boundary of X relative to H is nonempty and the Silov boundary of X relative to H is equal to the closure of the Choquet boundary. Bauer has also introduced (see [1 ]) an abstract Dirichlet problem for the above setting. If S:DHX is closed and xCX, then MS denotes the set of positive linear functionals u on C(S) such that u(h I S) =h(x) for all hCH. MS is always nonempty. The measures in MX'HX are called the H-harmonic measures belonging to x. A function f in C(X) is said to be H-harmonic if for every xEX and every u M we have u(f) =f(x). The set of H-harmonic functions is denoted by H. The Dirichlet problem is said to be solvable for X relative to H if 1^ j aHX = c(aHX). The Dirichlet problem is solvable if and only if to each x in X belongs exactly one H-harmonic measure (see [1, Satz 9]). Let X1, X2 be compact Hausdorff spaces and H1, H2 separating linear subspaces of C(X1), C(X2) respectively, which contain the constant functions. Equipped with the usual product topology, the cartesian product X1 X X2 is a compact Hausdorff space. In this paper we show that a subfamily H1+H2 of C(XIXX2) can be defined, in a natural way, for which VH1+H2Xl X X2 exists and VH1+H2Xl X X2 = VH1X1X VH2X2. We then give two theorems on the relation of the

On continuous selections for metric projections in spaces of continuous functions

Let K be a compact Hausdorff space and let E be a Banach space. We denote by C(K, E) the Banach space of all E-valued continuous functions defined on K, endowed with the supremum norm. We study in this paper Banach-Saks operators defined on C(K, E) spaces. We characterize these operators for a large class of compacts K (the scattered ones), or for a large class of Banach spaces E (the superreflexive ones). We also show by some examples that our theorems can not be extended directly.

Jerison introduced the Banach spaces C (S) of continuous real or complex-valued odd functions with respect to an involuntory homeomorphism a : S • • P S of the compact Hausdorff space S. It has been conjectured that any Banach space of the type C (S) is isomorphic to a Banach space of all continuous functions on some compact Hausdorff space. This conjecture is shown to be true if either (1) S is a Cartesian product of compact metric spaces or (2) S is a linearly ordered compact Hausdorff space and a has at most one fixed point.

In a recent paper, F. Bombal and P. Cembranos showed that if E is a Banach space such that E* is separable, then C(Q, E), the Banach space of continuous functions from a compact Hausdorff space Q to E, has the Dieudonne property. They asked whether or not the result is still true if one only assumes that E does not contain a copy of l1. In this paper we give a positive answer to their question. As a corollary we show that if E is a subspace of an order continuous Banach lattice, then E has the Dieudonne property if and only if C(Q, E) has the same property. If E is a Banach space and Q is a compact Hausdorff space, then C(Q, E) will stand for the Banach space of the E-valued continuous functions on Q under the supremum norm. A Banach space E is said to have the Dieudonne property if for every Banach space F, any bounded linear operator T: E -> F that transforms weakly Cauchy sequences into weakly convergent sequences is weakly compact. In [3] F. Bombal and P. Cembranos showed that if E is a Banach space such that E* is separable, then C(Q, E) has the Dieudonne property and they asked whether the same result is true when replacing the assumption that E* is separable by supposing only that 11 does not embed in E. In this paper we give a positive answer to their question. Recall that a topological space (X, -y) is said to be Polish if it is homeomorphic to a separable complete metric space and it is said to be analytic if it is the continuous image of a Polish space. A subset A of a topological space (X, y) is said to be coanalytic if its complement (X\A, y) is analytic. Finally A is said to be PCA if it is the continuous image of a coanalytic space. The notations and terminology used and not defined can be found in [5, 8, or 10]. In the proof of Lemma 3 we need the following two results. THEOREM 1 (M. SREBRNY [9]). Let X and Y be two analytic spaces and let F be a multivalued function from X to the subsets of Y, such that its graph is PCA and for which one can prove that for every x c X, F(x) :8 0 using only the axioms of ZFC. Then there exists a universally measurable map f: X -> Y such that f (x) c F(x) for every x E X. THEOREM 2 (I. ASSANI [1, 2]). Let E be a separable Banach space. The set of weakly Cauchy sequences is a coanalytic subset of EN. Received by the editors January 5, 1985. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 46G10, 46B22.

Finite dimensional subspaces and alternation

Zeroes of real polynomials on [formula omitted] spaces

Let K_1, K_2 be compact Hausdorff spaces and E_1, E_2 be Banach spaces not containing a copy of c_0. We establish lower estimates of the Banach–Mazur distance between the spaces of continuous functions {mathcal {C}}(K_1, E_1) and {mathcal {C}}(K_2, E_2) based on the ordinals ht(K_1), ht(K_2), which are new even for the case of spaces of real-valued functions on ordinal intervals. As a corollary we deduce that {mathcal {C}}(K_1, E_1) and {mathcal {C}}(K_2, E_2) are not isomorphic if ht(K_1) is substantially different from ht(K_2).

We show that any infinite compact Hausdorff space S is the continuous image of a totally disconnected compact Hausdorff space $S’$, having the same topological weight as S, by a map $\varphi$ which admits a regular linear operator of averaging, i.e., a projection of norm one of $C(S’)$ onto ${\varphi ^ \circ }C(S)$, where ${\varphi ^\circ }:C(S) \to C(S’)$ is the isometric embedding which takes $f \in C(S)$ into $f \circ \varphi$. A corollary of this theorem is that if S is an absolute extensor for totally disconnected spaces, the space $S’$ can be taken to be the Cantor space ${\{ 0,1\} ^\mathfrak {m}}$, where $\mathfrak {m}$ is the topological weight of S. This generalizes a result due to Milutin and Pełczyński. In addition, we show that for compact metric spaces S and T and any continuous surjection $\varphi :S \to T$, the operator $u:C(S) \to C(T)$ is a regular averaging operator for $\varphi$ if and only if u has a representation $uf(t) = \smallint _0^1f(\theta (t,x))$ for a suitable function $\theta :T \times [0,1] \to S$.

The main purpose of this work is to study some infinite combinatorics applications in spaces of continuous functions, defined in Hausdorff compact spaces. Using infinite combinatorics in Boolean algebras, through Stone duality, we obtain a compact Hausdorff space. With certain properties in Boolean algebras it is possible to analyze analytic properties in the space of continuous functions defined in such space. Specifically, we analyze the Grothendieck property.

Two homogeneous measures of noncompactness β and γ on an infinite dimensional Banach space X are called “equivalent” if there exist positive constants b and c such that bβ(S) ≤ γ(S) ≤ cβ(S) for all bounded sets \({S\subset X}\). If such constants do not exist, the measures of noncompactness are “inequivalent.” We ask a foundational question which apparently has not previously been considered: For what infinite dimensional Banach spaces do there exist inequivalent measures of noncompactness on X? We provide here the first examples of inequivalent measures of noncompactness. We prove that such inequivalent measures exist if X is a Hilbert space; or if (Ω, Σ, μ) is a general measure space, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, and X = Lp(Ω, Σ, μ); or if K is a compact Hausdorff space and X = C(K); or if K is a compact metric space, 0 < λ ≤ 1, and X = C0,λ(K), the Banach space of Holder continuous functions with Holder exponent λ. We also prove the existence of such inequivalent measures of noncompactness if Ω is an open subset of \({\mathbb{R}^n}\) and X is the Sobolev space Wm,p(Ω). Our motivation comes from questions about existence of eigenvectors of homogeneous, continuous, order-preserving cone maps f : C→C and from the closely related issue of giving the proper definition of the “cone essential spectral radius” of such maps. These questions are considered in the companion paper [28]; see, also, [27].