In this paper we consider the existence of nonzero solutions of an undecoupling elliptic system with zero Dirichlet condition. We use Leray-Schauder Degree Theory and arguments of Measure Theory. We will show the existence of positive solutions and we give applications to biharmonic equations and the scalar case.

In this note we discuss some results on numerical radius attaining operators paralleling earlier results on norm attaining operators. For arbitrary Banach spaces X and Y, the set of (bounded, linear) operators from X to Y whose adjoints attain their norms is norm-dense in the space of all operators. This theorem, due to W. Zizler, improves an earlier result by J. Lindenstrauss on the denseness of operators whose second adjoints attain their norms, and is also related to a recent result by C. Stegall...

Let A and B be uniform algebras. Suppose that α ≠ 0 and A 1 ⊂ A. Let ρ, τ: A 1 → A and S, T: A 1 → B be mappings. Suppose that ρ(A 1), τ(A 1) and S(A 1), T(A 1) are closed under multiplications and contain expA and expB, respectively. If ‖S(f)T(g) − α‖∞ = ‖ρ(f)τ(g) − α‖∞ for all f, g ∈ A 1, S(e 1)−1 ∈ S(A 1) and S(e 1) ∈ T(A 1) for some e 1 ∈ A 1 with ρ(e 1) = 1, then there exists a real-algebra isomorphism $$\tilde{S}$$ : A → B such that $$\tilde{S}$$ (ρ(f)) = S(e 1)−1 S(f) for every f ∈ A 1. We also give some applications...

We show that a positive semigroup $T_t$ on $L_p(\Omega ,\nu )$ with generator A and ||R(α + i β)|| → 0 as |β| → ∞ for some α ∈ ℝ is continuous in the operator norm for t>0. The proof is based on a criterion for norm continuity in terms of “smoothing properties” of certain convolution operators on general Banach spaces and an extrapolation result for the $L_p$-scale, which may be of independent interest.

Let X be a closed subspace of $L^p\left(\mu \right)$, where μ is an arbitrary measure and 1 < p < ∞. Let U be an invertible operator on X such that $su{p}_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}\left|\right|Uⁿ\left|\right|<\infty$. Motivated by applications in ergodic theory, we obtain (optimal) conditions for the convergence of series like ${\sum }_{n\ge 1}\left(Uⁿf\right)/n^{1-\alpha }$, 0 ≤ α < 1, in terms of $\left|\right|f+\cdots +U^{n-1}f{\left|\right|}_p$, generalizing results for unitary (or normal) operators in L²(μ). The proofs make use of the spectral integration initiated by Berkson and Gillespie and, more particularly, of results from a paper by Berkson-Bourgain-Gillespie....

Harper’s operator is defined on ${\ell }^2\left(Z\right)$ by $$H_{\theta }\xi \left(n\right)=\xi (n+1)+\xi (n-1)+2cosn\theta \xi \left(n\right),$$ where $\theta \in [0,\pi ]$. We show that the norm of $\parallel H_{\theta }\parallel$ is less than or equal to $2\sqrt{2}$ for $\pi /2\le \theta \le \pi$. This solves a conjecture stated in [1]. A general formula for estimating the norm of self-adjoint tridiagonal infinite matrices is also derived.

Let $f$ be a continuous function on $I$ and $A$, $B\in {\mathrm{𝒮𝒜}}_I\left(H\right)$, the convex set of selfadjoint operators with spectra in $I$. If $A\ne B$ and $f$, as an operator function, is Gateaux differentiable on $$[A,B]:=\left\{(1-t)A+tB\mid t\in \left[0,1\right]\right\},$$ while $p:\left[0,1\right]\to ℝ$ is Lebesgue integrable, then we have the inequalities $$\begin{array}{cc}\hfill \parallel {\int }_0^{1}p\left(\tau \right)& f\left(\left(1-\tau \right)A+\tau B\right)d\tau -{\int }_0^{1}p\left(\tau \right)d\tau {\int }_0^{1}f\left(\left(1-\tau \right)A+\tau B\right)d\tau \parallel \hfill \\ & \le {\int }_0^1\tau (1-\tau )|\frac{{\int }_{\tau }^{1}p\left(s\right)ds}{1-\tau }-\frac{{\int }_0^{\tau }p\left(s\right)ds}{\tau }|∥\nabla f_{\left(1-\tau \right)A+\tau B}\left(B-A\right)∥d\tau \hfill \\ & \le \frac{1}{4}{\int }_0^1|\frac{{\int }_{\tau }^{1}p\left(s\right)ds}{1-\tau }-\frac{{\int }_0^{\tau }p\left(s\right)ds}{\tau }|∥\nabla f_{\left(1-\tau \right)A+\tau B}\left(B-A\right)∥d\tau ,\hfill \end{array}$$ where $\nabla f$ is the Gateaux derivative of $f$.

The normal cohomology functor $Ex{t}_{\aleph }$ is introduced from the category of all normal Hilbert modules over the ball algebra to the category of A(B)-modules. From the calculation of $Ex{t}_{\aleph }$-groups, we show that every normal C(∂B)-extension of a normal Hilbert module (viewed as a Hilbert module over A(B) is normal projective and normal injective. It follows that there is a natural isomorphism between Hom of normal Shilov modules and that of their quotient modules, which is a new lifting theorem of normal Shilov...