- Research Article
67
- 10.1090/s0002-9939-1976-0422704-3
Banach spaces with biholomorphically equivalent unit balls are isomorphic
- Jan 01, 1976
- Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
- Wilhelm Kaup + 1 more +1
It is shown that in every complex Banach space E with open unit ball D C E there is a closed C-linear subspace Cc such that V C\ D is the orbit of the origin 0 E E under the group Aut(D) of all biholomorphic automorphisms of D. In particular two complex Banach spaces are isometrically equivalent if and only if their open unit balls are biholomorphically equivalent.Suppose E, F are complex Banach spaces and U E E is an open subset.Then a mapping/: U -* Fis called holomorphic if the Frchet derivative of/ at x (denoted by f'(x)) exists for every x G U. (For details compare [6].)In this paper we show that the Banach space E is completely determined by the holomorphic structure of its (open) unit ball; more precisely, Theorem.The complex Banach spaces E and are isometrically isomorphic if and only if there is a biholomorphic mapping from the unit ball of E onto the unit ball of .This answers a question L. A. Harris raised in [3, p. 15].For the proof let be a fixed complex Banach space with unit ball DEE.Let 0 denote the set of all holomorphic vector fields on D i.e. of all expressions X = f(z)d/dz where/: D -* E is a holomorphic mapping and z denotes the coordinate of D. Then D is a complex Lie algebra in the product [/W,^)]=(.'W/(z)-/'(z)g(z)).For every integer v the Lie algebra D contains the linear subspace ^v = l h(z)~~ h: E ^> E is a. homogeneous polynomial of degree v + 1 >.Obviously [$r,$J C SJL^ for every v and \i.Since D is a bounded domain in E, the set g of all complete holomorphic vector fields on D has the following properties (compare [7]):(0) Every h(z)d/dz G g is uniquely determined by h(0) and h'(0) (Cartan's uniqueness theorem).
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