Banach-power-associative algebras and J-B algebras
In this article we formalize one of the most important theorems of linear operator theory - the Closed Graph Theorem commonly used in a standard text book such as [10] in Chapter 24.3. It states that a surjective closed linear operator between Banach spaces is bounded.
We present here some evidence of the activity of Banach Lwów School of functional analysis in the field of topological algebras. We shall list several results connected with such names as Stanisław Mazur (1905-1981), Maks (Meier) Eidelheit (1910-1943), Stefan Banach (1892-1945) and Andrzej Turowicz (1904-1989) showing that if the war had not interrupted this activity we could expect more interesting results in this direction.
We study Banach-Saks properties in symmetric spaces of measurable operators. A principal result shows that if the symmetric Banach function space E on the positive semiaxis with the Fatou property has the Banach-Saks property then so also does the non-commutative space E(ℳ,τ) of τ-measurable operators affiliated with a given semifinite von Neumann algebra (ℳ,τ).
It is proved that for any Banach space X property (β) defined by Rolewicz in [22] implies that both X and X* have the Banach-Saks property. Moreover, in Musielak-Orlicz sequence spaces, criteria for the Banach-Saks property, the near uniform convexity, the uniform Kadec-Klee property and property (H) are given.
Using axiomatic joint spectra we obtain a functional calculus which extends our previous Gelfand-Waelbroeck type results to include a Banach-valued Taylor-Waelbroeck spectrum.
The talk presented a survey of results most of which have been obtained over the last several years in collaboration with M.Florencio and P.J.Paúl (Seville). The results concern the question of barrelledness of locally convex spaces equipped with suitable Boolean algebras or rings of projections. They are particularly applicable to various spaces of measurable vector valued functions. Some of the results are provided with proofs that are much simpler than the original ones.