Finite propagation speed and kernels of strictly elliptic operators.
Given a completely bounded map from an operator space into a von Neumann algebra (or merely a unital dual algebra) , we define to be -semidiscrete if for any operator algebra , the tensor operator is bounded from into , with norm less than . We investigate this property and characterize it by suitable approximation properties, thus generalizing the Choi-Effros characterization of semidiscrete von Neumann algebras. Our work is an extension of some recent work of Pisier on an analogous...
We study some algebraic properties of commutators of Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space of the bidisk. First, for two symbols where one is arbitrary and the other is (co-)analytic with respect to one fixed variable, we show that there is no nontrivial finite rank commutator. Also, for two symbols with separated variables, we prove that there is no nontrivial finite rank commutator or compact commutator in certain cases.
In this paper we investigate finite rank operators in the Jacobson radical of , where , are nests. Based on the concrete characterizations of rank one operators in and , we obtain that each finite rank operator in can be written as a finite sum of rank one operators in and the weak closure of equals if and only if at least one of , is continuous.
We describe the C*-algebra associated with the finite sections discretization of truncated Toeplitz operators on the model space K2u where u is an infinite Blaschke product. As consequences, we get a stability criterion for the finite sections discretization and results on spectral and pseudospectral approximation.
We completely characterize the ranks of A - B and for operators A and B on a Hilbert space satisfying A ≥ B ≥ 0. Namely, let l and m be nonnegative integers or infinity. Then l = rank(A - B) and for some operators A and B with A ≥ B ≥ 0 on a Hilbert space of dimension n (1 ≤ n ≤ ∞) if and only if l = m = 0 or 0 < l ≤ m ≤ n. In particular, this answers in the negative the question posed by C. Benhida whether for positive operators A and B the finiteness of rank(A - B) implies that of . For...
We give some fixed point theorems for firmly pseudo-contractive mappings defined on nonconvex subsets of a Banach space. We also prove some fixed point results for firmly pseudo-contractive mappings with unbounded nonconvex domain in a reflexive Banach space.
A linear mapping T from a subspace E of a Banach algebra into another Banach algebra is defined to be spectrally bounded if there is a constant M ≥ 0 such that r(Tx) ≤ Mr(x) for all x ∈ E, where r(·) denotes the spectral radius. We study some basic properties of this class of operators, which are sometimes analogous to, sometimes very different from, those of bounded operators between Banach spaces.