* This work was supported by the CNR while the author was visiting the University of Milan.To a convex set in a Banach space we associate a convex function (the separating function), whose subdifferential provides useful information on the nature of the supporting and exposed points of the convex set. These points are shown to be also connected to the solutions of a minimization problem involving the separating function. We investigate some relevant properties of this function and of its conjugate...

We study the bases and frames of reproducing kernels in the model subspaces $K_{\Theta }^2=H^2\ominus \Theta H^2$ of the Hardy class $H2$ in the upper half-plane. The main problem under consideration is the stability of a basis of reproducing kernels $k_{{\lambda }_n}\left(z\right)=(1-\overline{\Theta \left({\lambda }_n\right)}\Theta \left(z\right))/(z-{\overline{\lambda }}_n)$ under “small” perturbations of the points ${\lambda }_n$. We propose an approach to this problem based on the recently obtained estimates of derivatives in the spaces $K_{\Theta }^2$ and produce estimates of admissible perturbations generalizing certain results of W.S. Cohn and E. Fricain.

Let X be a quasi-Banach space. We prove that there exists K > 0 such that for every function w:ℝ → X satisfying ||w(s+t)-w(s)-w(t)|| ≤ ε(|s|+|t|) for s,t ∈ ℝ, there exists a unique additive function a:ℝ → X such that a(1)=0 and ||w(s)-a(s)-sθ(log₂|s|)|| ≤ Kε|s| for s ∈ ℝ, where θ: ℝ → X is defined by $\theta \left(k\right):=w\left(2^k\right)/2^k$ for k ∈ ℤ and extended in a piecewise linear way over the rest of ℝ.

We introduce an algebraic notion-stability-for an element of a commutative ring. It is shown that the stable elements of Banach algebras, and of Fréchet algebras, may be simply described. Part of the theory of power-series embeddings, given in [1] and [4], is seen to be of a purely algebraic nature. This approach leads to other natural questions.

The elementary theory of stable inverse-limit sequences, introduced in stable inverse-limit sequences, is used to extend the 'stability lemma' of automatic continuity theory.

The notion of a stable inverse-limit sequence is introduced. It provides a sufficient (and, for sequences of abelian groups, necessary) condition for the preservation of exactness by the inverse-limit functor. Examples of stable sequences are provided through the abstract Mittag-Leffler theorem; the results are applied in the theory of Fréchet algebras.

We show that two continuous inverse limit actions α and β of a locally compact group G on two pro-C *-algebras A and B are stably outer conjugate if and only if there is a full Hilbert A-module E and a continuous action u of G on E such that E and E *(the dual module of E) are countably generated in M(E)(the multiplier module of E), respectively M(E *) and the pair (E, u) implements a strong Morita equivalence between α and β. This is a generalization of a result of F. Combes [Proc. London Math....

The aim of this paper is to investigate stability of unit ball in Orlicz spaces, endowed with the Luxemburg norm, from the “local” point of view. Firstly, those points of the unit ball are characterized which are stable, i.e., at which the map $z\to \{(x,y):\frac{1}{2}(x+y)=z\}$ is lower-semicontinuous. Then the main theorem is established: An Orlicz space $L^{\varphi }\left(\mu \right)$ has stable unit ball if and only if either $L^{\varphi }\left(\mu \right)$ is finite dimensional or it is isometric to $L^{\infty }\left(\mu \right)$ or $\varphi$ satisfies the condition ${\Delta }_r$ or ${\Delta }_r^0$ (appropriate to the measure $\mu$ and the function...

Let (G,X) be a transformation group, where X is a locally compact Hausdorff space and G is a compact group. We investigate the stable rank and the real rank of the transformation group C*-algebra C₀(X)⋊ G. Explicit formulae are given in the case where X and G are second countable and X is locally of finite G-orbit type. As a consequence, we calculate the ranks of the group C*-algebra C*(ℝⁿ ⋊ G), where G is a connected closed subgroup of SO(n) acting on ℝⁿ by rotation.