1st ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMIRFAS 2010
The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar
July 30 - August 1
Texas A&M University, College Station
Schedule: Talks for SUMIRFAS will be posted on the Workshop in Analysis
and Probability page, URL
http://www.math.tamu.edu/conferences/linanalysis/
The first talk will be in the early afternoon on Friday and the Seminar
concludes by lunch time on Sunday. All talks will be in Blocker 169. The
Blocker Building is on Ireland St. just south of University Dr. on the
Texas A&M campus:
http://www.tamu.edu/map/building/overview/BLOC.html.
Coffee and refreshments will be available in Blocker 148.
Speakers at SUMIRFAS 2010 include
Florent Baudier, On various geometric properties of metric spaces
Ionut Chifan, Von Neumann algebras with unique group measure space Cartan
subalgebras
Ken Davidson, Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation and factorization of
functionals
Quanlei Fang, Commutators and localization on the Drury-Arveson space
Kevin Beanland, Strictly singular operators between separable Banach
spaces
Ted Gamelin, Composition operators on uniform algebras
Assaf Naor, Towards a calculus for non-linear spectral gaps
Roger Smith, Close nuclear separable C$^*$-algebras
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, On random matrices with independent log-concave
columns
Joel A. Tropp, User-friendly tail bounds for sums of random matrices
Michael Anshelevich (chair), Jinho Baik, and Roland Speicher are
organizing
a Concentration Week on "Orthogonal Polynomials in Probability Theory" for
the week of July 6-10. The theme of this Concentration Week is orthogonal
polynomial techniques in probability theory, especially in the study of
random matrices, free probability, and multiple stochastic integrals. Baik
and Speicher will give mini-courses designed to introduce non specialists
to these topics. The home page for this Concentration Week is at
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~manshel/OPPT/main.html
Ilijas Farah and David Kerr (chair) are organizing a Concentration Week
on "Set Theory and Functional Analysis" for the week of July 26-30. The
broad theme will be recent applications of set theory in functional
analysis, with emphasis on combinatorial phenomena and classifiability
problems in operator algebras, dynamics, and Banach space theory. The
program will include lecture series by Christian Rosendal, David Sherman,
and Todor Tsankov. The home page for this Concentration Week is at
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~kerr/concweek10/index.html
We expect to be able to cover housing for most participants from support
the
National Science Foundation has provided for the Workshop. Preference will
be
given to participants who do not have other sources of support, such as
sponsored
research grants. When you ask Cara to book your room, please tell her if
you are requesting support. Minorities, women, graduate students, and
young
researchers are especially encouraged to apply.
The Workshop is supported in part by grants from the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Minorities, women, graduate students, and young
researchers are especially encouraged to attend.
For logistical support, including requests for support, contact Cara
Barton <cara(a)math.tamu.edu>. For more information on the Workshop itself,
contact William Johnson <johnson(a)math.tamu.edu>, David Larson
<larson(a)math.tamu.edu>, Gilles Pisier <pisier(a)math.tamu.edu>, or Joel
Zinn <jzinn(a)math.tamu.edu>.
For information about the Concentration Week "Orthogonal Polynomials in
Probability Theory", contact Michael Anshelevich <manshel(a)math.tamu.edu>.
For information about the Concentration Week "Set Theory and Functional
Analysis", contact David Kerr <kerr(a)math.tamu.edu>.
This is an announcement for the paper "Spreading models in Banach space
theory" by S.A. Argyros, V. Kanellopoulos, and K. Tyros.
Abstract: We extend the classical Brunel-Sucheston definition of
the spreading model by introducing the $\mathcal{F}$-sequences
$(x_s)_{s\in\mathcal{F}}$ in a Banach space and the plegma families
in $\mathcal{F}$ where $\mathcal{F}$ is a regular thin family. The
new concept yields a transfinite increasing hierarchy of classes of
1-subsymmetric sequences. We explore the corresponding theory and
we present examples establishing this hierarchy and illustrating the
limitation of the theory.
Archive classification: math.FA math.CO
Remarks: vi+115 pages
Submitted from: ktyros(a)central.ntua.gr
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1006.0957
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1006.0957
This is an announcement for the paper 'A remark on the paper "A Unified
Pietsch Domination Theorem"' by Daniel Pellegrino and Joedson Santos.
Abstract: In this short communication we show that the Unified Pietsch
Domination proved by Botelho et al in a recent paper remains true even
if we remove two of its apparently crucial hypothesis.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: 3 pages
Submitted from: dmpellegrino(a)gmail.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1006.0753
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1006.0753
This is an announcement for the paper "An inclusion principle for general
classes of nonlinear absolutely summing maps" by Daniel Pellegrino.
Abstract: The inclusion theorem for absolutely summing linear operators
asserts that under certain assumptions on $p_{1},p_{2},q_{1}$ and
$q_{2},$ every absolutely $(q_{1},p_{1})$-summing linear operator is
also absolutely $(q_{2},p_{2}% )$-summing. In this note we obtain some
variants of this result in a completely nonlinear setting.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: 11 pages
Submitted from: dmpellegrino(a)gmail.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1006.0536
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1006.0536
This is an announcement for the paper "Noncommutative weak Orlicz spaces
and martingale inequalities" by Turdebek N. Bekjan, Zeqian Chen, and
Peide Liu.
Abstract: This paper is devoted to the study of noncommutative weak
Orlicz spaces. Marcinkiewicz interpolation theorem is extended to
include noncommutative weak Orlicz spaces as interpolation classes. In
particular, we prove the Burkholder-Gundy inequality in the setting of
noncommutative weak Orlicz spaces.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: 26 pages
Submitted from: zqchen(a)wipm.ac.cn
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1006.0091
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1006.0091
This is an announcement for the paper "A quantitative version of James'
compactness theorem" by Bernardo Cascales, Ondrej F.K. Kalenda and
Jiri Spurny.
Abstract: We introduce two measures of weak non-compactness $Ja_E$ and
$Ja$ that quantify, via distances, the idea of boundary behind James'
compactness theorem. These measures tell us, for a bounded subset $C$ of
a Banach space $E$ and for given $x^*\in E^*$, how far from $E$ or $C$
one needs to go to find $x^{**}\in \overline{C}^{w^*}\subset E^{**}$
with $x^{**}(x^*)=\sup x^* (C)$. A quantitative version of James'
compactness theorem is proved using $Ja_E$ and $Ja$, and in particular
it yields the following result: {\it Let $C$ be a closed convex bounded
subset of a Banach space $E$ and $r>0$. If there is an element $x_0^{**}$
in $\overline{C}^{w^*}$ whose distance to $C$ is greater than $r$, then
there is $x^*\in E^*$ such that each $x^{**}\in\overline{C}^{w^*}$ at
which $\sup x^*(C)$ is attained has distance to $E$ greater than $r/2$.}
We indeed establish that $Ja_E$ and $Ja$ are equivalent to other measures
of weak non-compactness studied in the literature. We also collect
particular cases and examples showing when the inequalities between the
different measures of weak non-compactness can be equalities and when
the inequalities are sharp.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: 16 pages
Submitted from: kalenda(a)karlin.mff.cuni.cz
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1005.5693
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1005.5693
This is an announcement for the paper "Compactness in Banach space theory
- selected problems" by Antonio Aviles and Ondrej F.K. Kalenda.
Abstract: We list a number of problems in several topics related to
compactness in nonseparable Banach spaces. Namely, about the Hilbertian
ball in its weak topology, spaces of continuous functions on Eberlein
compacta, WCG Banach spaces, Valdivia compacta and Radon-Nikod\'{y}m
compacta.
Archive classification: math.FA math.GN
Submitted from: kalenda(a)karlin.mff.cuni.cz
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1005.4303
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1005.4303
This is an announcement for the paper "Li-Yorke and distributionally
chaotic operators" by T. Bermudez, A. bonilla, F. Martinez-Gimenez,
and A. Peris.
Abstract: We study Li-Yorke chaos and distributional chaos for operators
on Banach spaces. More precisely, we characterize Li-Yorke chaos in
terms of the existence of irregular vectors. Sufficient ``computable''
criteria for distributional and Li-Yorke chaos are given, together with
the existence of dense scrambled sets under some additional conditions. We
also obtain certain spectral properties. Finally, we show that every
infinite dimensional separable Banach space admits a distributionally
chaotic operator which is also hypercyclic.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 47A16
Submitted from: tbermude(a)ull.es
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1005.3634
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1005.3634
This is an announcement for the paper "On biorthogonal systems whose
functionals are finitely supported" by Christina Brech and Piotr
Koszmider.
Abstract: We show that for each natural $n>1$ it is consistent that there
is a compact Hausdorff space $K_{2n}$ such that in $C(K_{2n})$ there
is no uncountable (semi)biorthogonal sequence $(f_\xi,\mu_\xi)_{\xi\in
\omega_1}$ where $\mu_\xi$'s are atomic measures with supports consisting
of at most $2n-1$ points of $K_{2n}$, but there are biorthogonal systems
$(f_\xi,\mu_\xi)_{\xi\in \omega_1}$ where $\mu_\xi$'s are atomic measures
with supports consisting of $2n$ points. This complements a result of
Todorcevic that it is consistent that each nonseparable Banach space
$C(K)$ has an uncountable biorthogonal system where the functionals are
measures of the form $\delta_{x_\xi}-\delta_{y_\xi}$ for $\xi<\omega_1$
and $x_\xi,y_\xi\in K$. It also follows that it is consistent that the
irredundance of the Boolean algebra $Clop(K)$ or the Banach algebra
$C(K)$ for $K$ totally disconnected can be strictly smaller than the
sizes of biorthogonal systems in $C(K)$. The compact spaces exhibit an
interesting behaviour with respect to known cardinal functions: the
hereditary density of the powers $K_{2n}^k$ is countable up to $k=n$
and it is uncountable (even the spread is uncountable) for $k>n$.
Archive classification: math.FA
Submitted from: christina.brech(a)gmail.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1005.3532
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1005.3532
This is an announcement for the paper "On universal Banach spaces of
density continuum" by Christina Brech and Piotr Koszmider.
Abstract: We consider the question whether there exists a Banach space $X$
of density continuum such that every Banach space of density not bigger
than continuum isomorphically embeds into $X$ (called a universal Banach
space of density $\cc$). It is well known that $\ell_\infty/c_0$ is such
a space if we assume the continuum hypothesis. However, some additional
set-theoretic assumption is needed, as we prove in the main result of
this paper that it is consistent with the usual axioms of set-theory
that there is no universal Banach space of density $\cc$. Thus, the
problem of the existence of a universal Banach space of density $\cc$
is undecidable using the usual axioms of set-theory.
We also prove that it is consistent that there are universal Banach
spaces of density $\cc$, but $\ell_\infty/c_0$ is not among them. This
relies on the proof of the consistency of the nonexistence of an
isomorphic embedding of $C([0,\cc])$ into $\ell_\infty/c_0$.
Archive classification: math.FA
Submitted from: christina.brech(a)gmail.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1005.3530
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1005.3530