- Research Article
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- 10.2307/2000286
Reflexivity and Order Properties of Scalar-Type Spectral Operators in Locally Convex Spaces
- Jan 01, 1986
- Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
- P G Dodds + 2 more +2
One of the principal results of the paper is that each scalar-type spectral operator in the quasicomplete locally convex space X is reflexive.The paper also studies in detail the relation between the theory of equicontinuous spectral measures in locally convex spaces and the order properties of equicontinuous Bade complete Boolean algebras of projections.o.Introduction.One of the principal results of this paper is that each scalar-type spectral operator T in the quasicomplete, locally convex space X is reflexive, i.e. the strongly closed subalgebra generated by the identity and T in .P(X), the space of continuous linear operators on X, consists precisely of those continuous linear operators on X which leave invariant each (closed) T-invariant subspace of X.For the case that X is a Banach space, this result was established by Gillespie [9] via an interesting factorization theorem in Banach function spaces, a method which does not appear to extend readily to the more general setting.The present approach, however, avoids factorization theorems by showing directly that each continuous linear functional on the strongly closed algebra generated by a Bade-complete, equicontinuous Boolean algebra of projections in X has a representation of the form < .x, x') for some x E X and x' E X', where X' denotes the dual space of X, a result which goes back to R. Pallu de la Barriere [20] for the case of Abelian von Neumann algebras in Hilbert space.Our method is based on ideas from the theory of Riesz spaces and yields considerable simplification of technique, even in the setting of Banach spaces.The cornerstone of the present paper is the extension of the reflexivity theorem of Bade [2] to the setting of locally convex spaces proved in [6] via the theory of closed spectral measures and further refined and sharpened in [5] using purely intrinsic methods, based on order considerations.One of the new features which emerged from the approach of [5] was a type of "automatic continuity" theorem for a certain class of everywhere defined linear operators, even in the absence of a suitable closed-graph theorem.This idea is exploited in 1 to show that an everywhere
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