This is an announcement for the paper "Direct sums and the Szlenk index"
by Philip A. H. Brooker.
Abstract: For $\alpha$ an ordinal and $1<p<\infty$, we determine
a necessary and sufficient condition for an $\ell_p$-direct sum of
operators to have Szlenk index not exceeding $\omega^\alpha$. It
follows from our results that the Szlenk index of an $\ell_p$-direct
sum of operators is determined in a natural way by the behaviour of the
$\varepsilon$-Szlenk indices of its summands. Our methods give similar
results for $c_0$-direct sums.
Archive classification: math.FA
Submitted from: philip.brooker(a)anu.edu.au
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.5708
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http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.5708
This is an announcement for the paper "Operator ideals associated with
the Szlenk index" by Philip A. H. Brooker.
Abstract: For $\alpha$ an ordinal, we investigate the class
$\mathscr{SZ}_\alpha$ consisting of all operators whose Szlenk index
is an ordinal not exceeding $\omega^\alpha$. Our main result is that
$\mathscr{SZ}_\alpha$ is a closed, injective, surjective operator ideal
for each $\alpha$. We also study the relationship between the classes
$\mathscr{SZ}_\alpha$ and several well-known closed operator ideals.
Archive classification: math.FA
Submitted from: philip.brooker(a)anu.edu.au
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.5706
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http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.5706
This is an announcement for the paper "Strictly positive support points
of convex sets in $\mathbb{L}^0_+$" by Constantinos Kardaras.
Abstract: We introduce the concept of strictly positive support points
of convex sets in $\mathbb{L}^0_+$, the nonnegative orthant of the
topological vector space $\mathbb{L}^0$ of all random variables built over
a probability space. Traditional functional-analytic definitions fail,
due to the fact that the topological dual of $\mathbb{L}^0$ is trivial
when the underlying probability space is nonatomic. A necessary and
sufficient condition for an element of a convex set in $\mathbb{L}^0_+$
to be a strictly positive support point of the set is given, inspired
from ideas in financial mathematics.
Archive classification: math.FA math.PR
Remarks: 8 pages
Submitted from: langostas(a)gmail.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.5419
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http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.5419
This is an announcement for the paper "Weak$^*$ closures and derived
sets in dual Banach spaces" by Mikhail I. Ostrovskii.
Abstract: The main results of the paper: {\bf (1)} The dual Banach
space $X^*$ contains a linear subspace $A\subset X^*$ such that the
set $A^{(1)}$ of all limits of weak$^*$ convergent bounded nets in
$A$ is a proper norm-dense subset of $X^*$ if and only if $X$ is a
non-quasi-reflexive Banach space containing an infinite-dimensional
subspace with separable dual. {\bf (2)} Let $X$ be a non-reflexive
Banach space. Then there exists a convex subset $A\subset X^*$ such that
$A^{(1)}\neq {\overline{A}\,}^*$ (the latter denotes the weak$^*$ closure
of $A$). {\bf (3)} Let $X$ be a quasi-reflexive Banach space and $A\subset
X^*$ be an absolutely convex subset. Then $A^{(1)}={\overline{A}\,}^*$.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: primary 46B10; secondary 46B15; 46B20
Submitted from: ostrovsm(a)stjohns.edu
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http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.5176
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http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.5176
This is an announcement for the paper "Phillips' Lemma for L-embedded
Banach spaces" by Hermann Pfitzner.
Abstract: In this note the following version of Phillips' lemma is
proved. The L-projection of an L-embedded space - that is of a Banach
space which is complemented in its bidual such that the norm between the
two complementary subspaces is additive - is weak-weakly sequentially
continuous.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: accepted by Archiv der Mathematik, The original publication
will be available at www.springerlink.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.5088
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.5088
This is an announcement for the paper "Hastings' additivity counterexample
via Dvoretzky's theorem" by Guillaume Aubrun, Stanislaw Szarek and
Elisabeth Werner.
Abstract: The goal of this note is to show that Hastings' counterexample
to the additivity of minimal output von Neumann entropy can be readily
deduced from a sharp version of Dvoretzky's theorem on almost spherical
sections of convex bodies.
Archive classification: quant-ph math.FA
Remarks: 11 pages
Submitted from: szarek(a)cwru.edu
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.4925
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.4925
This is an announcement for the paper "Daugavet centers and direct sums
of Banach spaces" by Tetiana V. Bosenko.
Abstract: A linear continuous nonzero operator G:X->Y is a Daugavet
center if every rank-1 operator T:X->Y satisfies ||G+T||=||G||+||T||. We
study the case when either X or Y is a sum $X_1 \oplus_F X_2$ of two
Banach spaces $X_1$ and $X_2$ by some two-dimensional Banach space F. We
completely describe the class of those F such that for some spaces $X_1$
and $X_2$ there exists a Daugavet center acting from $X_1\oplus_F X_2$,
and the class of those F such that for some pair of spaces $X_1$ and
$X_2$ there is a Daugavet center acting into $X_1\oplus_F X_2$. We also
present several examples of such Daugavet centers.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 46B04; secondary 46B20, 46B40
Remarks: 13 pages
Submitted from: t.bosenko(a)mail.ru
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.4857
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http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.4857
This is an announcement for the paper "L_1 embeddings of the Heisenberg
group and fast estimation of graph isoperimetry" by Assaf Naor.
Abstract: We survey connections between the theory of bi-Lipschitz
embeddings and the Sparsest Cut Problem in combinatorial optimization. The
story of the Sparsest Cut Problem is a striking example of the deep
interplay between analysis, geometry, and probability on the one hand, and
computational issues in discrete mathematics on the other. We explain how
the key ideas evolved over the past 20 years, emphasizing the interactions
with Banach space theory, geometric measure theory, and geometric group
theory. As an important illustrative example, we shall examine recently
established connections to the the structure of the Heisenberg group,
and the incompatibility of its Carnot-Carath\'eodory geometry with the
geometry of the Lebesgue space $L_1$.
Archive classification: math.MG cs.DS math.FA
Remarks: To appear in Proceedings of the International Congress of
Mathematicians, Hyderabad India, 2010
Submitted from: naor(a)cims.nyu.edu
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.4261
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http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.4261
This is an announcement for the paper "Numerical index of absolute
sums of Banach spaces" by Miguel Martin, Javier Meri, Mikhail Popov,
and Beata Randrianantoanina.
Abstract: We study the numerical index of absolute sums of Banach spaces,
giving general conditions which imply that the numerical index of the sum
is less or equal than the infimum of the numerical indices of the summands
and we provide some examples where the equality holds covering the already
known case of $c_0$-, $\ell_1$- and $\ell_\infty$-sums and giving as
a new result the case of $E$-sums where $E$ has the RNP and $n(E)=1$
(in particular for finite-dimensional $E$ with $n(E)=1$). We also show
that the numerical index of a Banach space $Z$ which contains a dense
increasing union of one-complemented subspaces is greater or equal than
the limit superior of the numerical indices of those subspaces. Using
these results, we give a detailed short proof of the already known fact
that the numerical indices of all infinite-dimensional $L_p(\mu)$-spaces
coincide.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: 19 pages
Submitted from: randrib(a)muohio.edu
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.3269
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http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.3269
This is an announcement for the paper "Non-asymptotic theory of random
matrices: extreme singular values" by Mark Rudelson and Roman Vershynin.
Abstract: The classical random matrix theory is mostly focused on
asymptotic spectral properties of random matrices as their dimensions
grow to infinity. At the same time many recent applications from convex
geometry to functional analysis to information theory operate with random
matrices in fixed dimensions. This survey addresses the non-asymptotic
theory of extreme singular values of random matrices with independent
entries. We focus on recently developed geometric methods for estimating
the hard edge of random matrices (the smallest singular value).
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B09; 60B20
Remarks: Submission for International Congress of Mathematicians,
Hydebabad, India, 2010
Submitted from: romanv(a)umich.edu
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1003.2990
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http://arXiv.org/abs/1003.2990