We give several characterizations of the improjective operators, introduced by Tarafdar, and we characterize the inessential operators among the improjective operators. It is an interesting problem whether both classes of operators coincide in general. A positive answer would provide, for example, an intrinsic characterization of the inessential operators. We give several equivalent formulations of this problem and we show that the inessential operators acting between certain pairs of Banach spaces...

 Let $F_i=1,...,N$ be affine mappings of ${ℝ}^n$. It is well known that if there exists j ≤ 1 such that for every ${\sigma }_1,...,{\sigma }_j\in 1,...,N$ the composition (1) $F_{\sigma 1}\circ ...\circ F_{{\sigma }_j}$ is a contraction, then for any infinite sequence ${\sigma }_1,{\sigma }_2,...\in 1,...,N$ and any $z\in {ℝ}^n$, the sequence (2)$F_{\sigma 1}\circ ...\circ F_{{\sigma }_n}\left(z\right)$ is convergent and the limit is independent of z. We prove the following converse result: If (2) is convergent for any $z\in {ℝ}^n$ and any $\sigma ={\sigma }_1,{\sigma }_2,...$ belonging to some subshift Σ of N symbols (and the limit is independent of z), then there exists j ≥ 1 such that for every $\sigma ={\sigma }_1,{\sigma }_2,...\in \Sigma$ the composition (1) is a contraction. This result...

An infinite dimensional counterpart of uniform smoothness is studied. It does not imply reflexivity, but we prove that it gives some $l_p$-type estimates for finite dimensional decompositions, weak Banach-Saks property and the weak fixed point property.

For the complex interpolation method, Kouba proved an important interpolation formula for tensor products of Banach spaces. We give a partial extension of this formula in the injective case for the Gustavsson?Peetre method of interpolation within the setting of Banach function spaces.

In the paper we study the existence of nonzero positive invariant elements for positive operators in Riesz spaces. The class of Riesz spaces for which the results are valid is large enough to contain all the Banach lattices with order continuous norms. All the results obtained in earlier works deal with positive operators in KB-spaces and in many of them the approach is based upon the use of Banach limits. The methods created for KB-spaces cannot be extended to our more general setting; that is...

We give a counterexample showing that $\overline{(I-T*)L_{\infty }}\cap L_{\infty }^{+}=0$ does not imply the existence of a strictly positive function u in $L_1$ with Tu = u, where T is a power bounded positive linear operator on $L_1$ of a σ-finite measure space. This settles a conjecture by Brunel, Horowitz, and Lin.

We discuss the invariant subspace problem of polynomially bounded operators on a Banach space and obtain an invariant subspace theorem for polynomially bounded operators. At the same time, we state two open problems, which are relative propositions of this invariant subspace theorem. By means of the two relative propositions (if they are true), together with the result of this paper and the result of C. Ambrozie and V. Müller (2004) one can obtain an important conclusion that every polynomially...

In the first part of this paper, we prove that in a sense the class of bi-Lipschitz $\delta$-convex mappings, whose inverses are locally $\delta$-convex, is stable under finite-dimensional $\delta$-convex perturbations. In the second part, we construct two $\delta$-convex mappings from ${\ell }_1$ onto ${\ell }_1$, which are both bi-Lipschitz and their inverses are nowhere locally $\delta$-convex. The second mapping, whose construction is more complicated, has an invertible strict derivative at $0$. These mappings show that for (locally) $\delta$-convex mappings...

The main goal of the paper is to formulate some new properties of the Ishlinskii hysteresis operator $F$, which characterizes e.g. the relation between the deformation and the stress in a non-perfectly elastic (elastico-plastic) material. We introduce two energy functionals and derive the energy inequalities. As an example we investigate the equation $u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+F\left(u\right)=0$ describing the motion of a mass point at the extremity of an elastico-plastic spring.