In this survey article we shall summarise some of the recent progress that has occurred in the study of topological games as well as their applications to abstract analysis. The topics given here do not necessarily represent the most important problems from the area of topological games, but rather, they represent a selection of problems that are of interest to the authors.
The well-known general Tauberian theorem of N. Wiener is formulated and proved for distributions in the place of functions and its Ganelius' formulation is corrected. Some changes of assumptions of this theorem are discussed, too.
Denote by any set of cardinality continuum. It is proved that a Banach algebra A with the property that for every collection there exist α ≠ β ∈ such that is isomorphic to , where , and E is either for some d₀ ∈ ℕ or a 1-dimensional -bimodule with trivial right module action. In particular, ℂ is the unique non-zero prime Banach algebra satisfying the above condition.
Let Y be a subgroup of an abelian group X and let T be a given collection of subsets of a linear space E over the rationals. Moreover, suppose that F is a subadditive set-valued function defined on X with values in T. We establish some conditions under which every additive selection of the restriction of F to Y can be extended to an additive selection of F. We also present some applications of results of this type to the stability of functional equations.
Let X be a normed space and the group of all linear surjective isometries of X that are finite-dimensional perturbations of the identity. We prove that if acts transitively on the unit sphere then X must be an inner product space.