Description of multiplication operators generated by a sequence and composition operators induced by a partition on Lorentz sequence spaces $l(p,q)$, $1<p\le \infty$, $1\le q\le \infty$ is presented.

Let S be a degree preserving linear operator of ℝ[X] into itself. The question is if, preserving orthogonality of some orthogonal polynomial sequences, S must necessarily be an operator of composition with some affine function of ℝ. In [2] this problem was considered for S mapping sequences of Laguerre polynomials onto sequences of orthogonal polynomials. Here we improve substantially the theorems of [2] as well as disprove the conjecture proposed there. We also consider the same questions for polynomials...

An operator T on a Banach space ℬ is said to be hypercyclic if there exists a vector x such that the orbit ${Tⁿx}_{n\ge 1}$ is dense in ℬ. Hypercyclicity is a strong kind of cyclicity which requires that the linear span of the orbit is dense in ℬ. If the arithmetic means of the orbit of x are dense in ℬ then the operator T is said to be Cesàro-hypercyclic. Apparently Cesàro-hypercyclicity is a strong version of hypercyclicity. We prove that an operator is Cesàro-hypercyclic if and only if there exists a vector...

Refinements of the classical Sobolev inequality lead to optimal domain problems in a natural way. This is made precise in recent work of Edmunds, Kerman and Pick; the fundamental technique is to prove that the (generalized) Sobolev inequality is equivalent to the boundedness of an associated kernel operator on [0,1]. We make a detailed study of both the optimal domain, providing various characterizations of it, and of properties of the kernel operator when it is extended to act in its optimal domain....

We study the orbits of isometries of L¹[0,1]. For a certain class of isometries we show that the set of functions f in L¹[0,1] for which the orbit of f under the isometry T is equivalent to the usual canonical basis e₁,e₂,e₃,... of l¹ is an open dense set. In the proof we develop a new method to get copies of l¹ inside L¹[0,1] using geometric progressions. This method does not use disjoint or relatively disjoint supports, which seems to be the most common way to get such copies. We also use this...

We study the order boundedness of composition operators induced by holomorphic self-maps of the open unit disc D. We consider these operators first on the Hardy spaces $H^p$ 0 < p < ∞ and then on the Nevanlinna class N. Given a non-negative increasing function h on [0,∞[, a composition operator is said to be X,Lh-order bounded (we write (X,Lh)-ob) with $X=H^p$ or X = N if its composition with the map f ↦ f*, where f* denotes the radial limit of f, is order bounded from X into $L_h$. We give a complete characterization...

Let E be an ideal of L⁰ over a σ-finite measure space (Ω,Σ,μ). For a real Banach space $(X,|\left|·\right|{|}_X)$ let E(X) be a subspace of the space L⁰(X) of μ-equivalence classes of strongly Σ-measurable functions f: Ω → X and consisting of all those f ∈ L⁰(X) for which the scalar function ${\left|\right|f\left(·\right)\left|\right|}_X$ belongs to E. Let E(X)˜ stand for the order dual of E(X). For u ∈ E⁺ let $D_u(={f\in E\left(X\right):\left|\right|f\left(·\right)\left|\right|}_X\le u)$ stand for the order interval in E(X). For a real Banach space $(Y,|\left|·\right|{|}_Y)$ a linear operator T: E(X) → Y is said to be order-bounded whenever for each u ∈ E⁺ the set...

It is shown that if T is a sublinear translation invariant operator of restricted weak type (1,1) acting on L¹(𝕋), then T maps simple functions in L log L(𝕋) boundedly into L¹(𝕋).

Let M be the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator defined by:Mf(x) = supx ∈ Q 1/|Q| ∫Q |f| dx, (f ∈ Lloc(Rn)),where the supreme is taken over all cubes Q containing x and |Q| is the Lebesgue measure of Q. In this paper we characterize the Orlicz spaces Lφ*, associated to N-functions φ, such that M is bounded in Lφ*. We prove that this boundedness is equivalent to the complementary N-function ψ of φ satisfying the Δ2-condition in [0,∞), that is, sups&gt;0 ψ(2s) / ψ(s) &lt; ∞.