A characterization of functions in the first Baire class in terms of their sets of discontinuity is given. More precisely, a function $f:ℝ\to ℝ$ is of the first Baire class if and only if for each $ϵ>0$ there is a sequence of closed sets ${\left\{C_n\right\}}_{n=1}^{\infty }$ such that $D_f={\bigcup }_{n=1}^{\infty }{C}_n$ and ${\omega }_f\left(C_n\right)<ϵ$ for each $n$ where $${\omega }_f\left(C_n\right)=sup\left\{\right|f\left(x\right)-f\left(y\right)|:x,y\in C_n\}$$ and $D_f$ denotes the set of points of discontinuity of $f$. The proof of the main theorem is based on a recent $ϵ$-$\delta$ characterization of Baire class one functions as well as on a well-known theorem due to Lebesgue. Some direct applications...

Let $X$ be a complex $L_1$-predual, non-separable in general. We investigate extendability of complex-valued bounded homogeneous Baire-$\alpha$ functions on the set $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ of the extreme points of the dual unit ball $B_{X^{*}}$ to the whole unit ball $B_{X^{*}}$. As a corollary we show that, given $\alpha \in [1,{\omega }_1)$, the intrinsic $\alpha$-th Baire class of $X$ can be identified with the space of bounded homogeneous Baire-$\alpha$ functions on the set $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ when $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ satisfies certain topological assumptions. The paper is intended to be a complex counterpart to...

We study the generalized Cantor space ${}^{\kappa }2$ and the generalized Baire space ${}^{\kappa }\kappa$ as analogues of the classical Cantor and Baire spaces. We equip ${}^{\kappa }\kappa$ with the topology where a basic neighborhood of a point η is the set ν: (∀j < i)(ν(j) = η(j)), where i < κ. We define the concept of a strong measure zero set of ${}^{\kappa }2$. We prove for successor $\kappa ={\kappa }^{<\kappa }$ that the ideal of strong measure zero sets of ${}^{\kappa }2$ is ${}_{\kappa }$-additive, where ${}_{\kappa }$ is the size of the smallest unbounded family in ${}^{\kappa }\kappa$, and that the generalized Borel...

We prove the result on Baire classification of mappings $f:X\times Y\to Z$ which are continuous with respect to the first variable and belongs to a Baire class with respect to the second one, where $X$ is a $PP$-space, $Y$ is a topological space and $Z$ is a strongly $\sigma$-metrizable space with additional properties. We show that for any topological space $X$, special equiconnected space $Z$ and a mapping $g:X\to Z$ of the $(n-1)$-th Baire class there exists a strongly separately continuous mapping $f:X^n\to Z$ with the diagonal $g$. For wide classes...

Jayne and Rogers proved that every function from an analytic space into a separable metrizable space is decomposable into countably many continuous functions with closed domains if and only if the preimage of each $F_{\sigma }$ set under that function is again $F_{\sigma }$. Many researchers conjectured that the Jayne-Rogers theorem can be generalized to all finite levels of Borel functions. In this paper, by using the Shore-Slaman join theorem on the Turing degrees, we show the following variant of the Jayne-Rogers...

For a multidimensional control problem ${\left(P\right)}_K$ involving controls $u\in L_{\infty }$, we construct a dual problem ${\left(D\right)}_K$ in which the variables ν to be paired with u are taken from the measure space rca (Ω,) instead of $\left(L_{\infty }\right)*$. For this purpose, we add to ${\left(P\right)}_K$ a Baire class restriction for the representatives of the controls u. As main results, we prove a strong duality theorem and saddle-point conditions.

For each ordinal 1 ≤ α < ω₁ we present separable metrizable spaces $X_{\alpha }$, $Y_{\alpha }$ and $Z_{\alpha }$ such that (i) $f{X}_{\alpha },f{Y}_{\alpha },f{Z}_{\alpha }=\omega ₀$, where f is either trdef or ₀-trsur, (ii) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{X}_{\alpha }=\infty$ and $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{X}_{\alpha }=-1$, (iii) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Y}_{\alpha }=-1$ and $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Y}_{\alpha }=\infty$, and (iv) $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=\infty$ and $A(\alpha +1)\cap M(\alpha +1)-trind{Z}_{\alpha }=-1$. We also show that there exists no separable metrizable space $W_{\alpha }$ with $A\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }\ne \infty$, $M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }\ne \infty$ and $A\left(\alpha \right)\cap M\left(\alpha \right)-trind{W}_{\alpha }=\infty$, where A(α) (resp. M(α)) is the absolutely additive (resp. multiplicative) Borel class.

Let ${\alpha }_i,{\beta }_i>0$, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, and for t > 0 and x = (x₁,...,xₙ) ∈ ℝⁿ, let $t•x=(t^{\alpha ₁}x₁,...,t^{\alpha ₙ}xₙ)$, $t\circ x=(t^{\beta ₁}x₁,...,t^{\beta ₙ}xₙ)$ and $\left|\right|x\left|\right|={\sum }_{i=1}^n{\left|x_i\right|}^{1/{\alpha }_i}$. Let φ₁,...,φₙ be real functions in $C^{\infty }(ℝⁿ-0)$ such that φ = (φ₁,..., φₙ) satisfies φ(t • x) = t ∘ φ(x). Let γ > 0 and let μ be the Borel measure on ${ℝ}^{2n}$ given by $\mu \left(E\right)={\int }_{ℝⁿ}{\chi }_E{(x,\phi \left(x\right))\left|\right|x\left|\right|}^{\gamma -\alpha }dx$, where $\alpha ={\sum }_{i=1}^n{\alpha }_i$ and dx denotes the Lebesgue measure on ℝⁿ. Let $T_{\mu }f=\mu \ast f$ and let $\left|\right|T_{\mu }{\left|\right|}_{p,q}$ be the operator norm of $T_{\mu }$ from $L^p\left({ℝ}^{2n}\right)$ into $L^q\left({ℝ}^{2n}\right)$, where the $L^p$ spaces are taken with respect to the Lebesgue measure. The type set $E_{\mu }$ is defined by $E_{\mu }=(1/p,1/q):\left|\right|T_{\mu }{\left|\right|}_{p,q}<\infty ,1\le p,q\le \infty$. In the case ${\alpha }_i\ne {\beta }_k$ for 1 ≤ i,k ≤ n we characterize the...

A classification of weakly compact multiplication operators on $L\left(L_p\right),$1<p<$,isgiven.ThisanswersaquestionraisedbySaksmanandTylliin1992.Theclassificationinvolvestheconceptof$p$-strictlysingularoperators,andwealsoinvestigatethestructureofgeneral$p$-strictlysingularoperatorson$Lp$.Themainresultisthatifanoperator$T$on$Lp$,$1<p<2$,is$p$-strictlysingularand$T|X$isanisomorphismforsomesubspace$X$of$Lp$,then$X$embedsinto$Lr$forall$r<2$,but$X$neednotbeisomorphictoaHilbertspace.$It is also shown that if $T$ is convolution by a biased coin on $L_p$ of the Cantor group, $1\le p<2$, and $T_{|X}$ is an isomorphism for some reflexive subspace $X$ of $L_p$, then $X$ is isomorphic to a Hilbert space. The case $p=1$ answers a question asked by Rosenthal in 1976.

Let ${Rₙ}_{n=1}^{\infty }$ be a commuting approximating sequence of the Banach space X leaving the closed subspace A ⊂ X invariant. Then we prove three-space results of the following kind: If the operators Rₙ induce basis projections on X/A, and X or A is an ${ℒ}_p$-space, then both X and A have bases. We apply these results to show that the spaces $C_{\Lambda }=\overline{span}{z}^k:k\in \Lambda \subset C\left(\right)$ and $L_{\Lambda }=\overline{span}{z}^k:k\in \Lambda \subset L₁\left(\right)$ have bases whenever Λ ⊂ ℤ and ℤ∖Λ is a Sidon set.

A famous theorem of Carleson says that, given any function $f\in L^p\left(𝕋\right)$, $p\in (1,+\infty )$, its Fourier series $\left(S_{n}f\left(x\right)\right)$ converges for almost every $x\in 𝕋$. Beside this property, the series may diverge at some point, without exceeding $O\left(n^{1/p}\right)$. We define the divergence index at $x$ as the infimum of the positive real numbers $\beta$ such that $S_{n}f\left(x\right)=O\left(n^{\beta }\right)$ and we are interested in the size of the exceptional sets $E_{\beta }$, namely the sets of $x\in 𝕋$ with divergence index equal to $\beta$. We show that quasi-all functions in $L^p\left(𝕋\right)$ have a multifractal behavior with respect to...

CONTENTSIntroduction................................................................................................................................... 5 Notations.......................................................................................................................... 5§ 1. Preliminaries........................................................................................................................ 6 1. Right invertible operators.....................................................................................................

If $E=e_i$ and $F=f_i$ are two 1-unconditional basic sequences in L₁ with E r-concave and F p-convex, for some 1 ≤ r < p ≤ 2, then the space of matrices $a_{i,j}$ with norm $\left|\right|a_{i,j}{\left|\right|}_{E\left(F\right)}=\left|\right|{\sum }_k\left|\right|{\sum }_l{a}_{k,l}{f}_l\left|\right|e_k\left|\right|$ embeds into L₁. This generalizes a recent result of Prochno and Schütt.

Denote by spanf₁,f₂,... the collection of all finite linear combinations of the functions f₁,f₂,... over ℝ. The principal result of the paper is the following. Theorem (Full Clarkson-Erdős-Schwartz Theorem). Suppose ${\left({\lambda }_j\right)}_{j=1}^{\infty }$ is a sequence of distinct positive numbers. Then $span1,x^{\lambda ₁},x^{\lambda ₂},...$ is dense in C[0,1] if and only if ${\sum }_{j=1}^{\infty }\left({\lambda }_j\right)/({\lambda }_j²+1)=\infty$. Moreover, if ${\sum }_{j=1}^{\infty }\left({\lambda }_j\right)/({\lambda }_j²+1)<\infty$, then every function from the C[0,1] closure of $span1,x^{\lambda ₁},x^{\lambda ₂},...$ can be represented as an analytic function on z ∈ ℂ ∖ (-∞, 0]: |z| < 1 restricted to (0,1). This result improves an...

For Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$, let $K_{w^{*}}(X^{*},Y)$ denote the space of all $w^{*}-w$ continuous compact operators from $X^{*}$ to $Y$ endowed with the operator norm. A Banach space $X$ has the $wGP$ property if every Grothendieck subset of $X$ is relatively weakly compact. In this paper we study Banach spaces with property $wGP$. We investigate whether the spaces $K_{w^{*}}(X^{*},Y)$ and $X{\otimes }_{ϵ}Y$ have the $wGP$ property, when $X$ and $Y$ have the $wGP$ property.

Let $Q={\left(q_n\right)}_{n=1}^{\infty }$ be a sequence of bases with $q_i\ge 2$. In the case when the $q_i$ are slowly growing and satisfy some additional weak conditions, we provide a construction of a number whose $Q$-Cantor series expansion is both $Q$-normal and $Q$-distribution normal. Moreover, this construction will result in a computable number provided we have some additional conditions on the computability of $Q$, and from this construction we can provide computable constructions of numbers with atypical normality properties. ...

Let $\mathscr{H}$ be a complex Hilbert space, $A$ a positive operator with closed range in $ℬ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ and ${ℬ}_A\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ the sub-algebra of $ℬ\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ of all $A$-self-adjoint operators. Assume $\phi :{ℬ}_A\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$ onto itself is a linear continuous map. This paper shows that if $\phi$ preserves $A$-unitary operators such that $\phi \left(I\right)=P$ then $\psi$ defined by $\psi \left(T\right)=P\phi \left(PT\right)$ is a homomorphism or an anti-homomorphism and $\psi \left(T^{♯}\right)=\psi {\left(T\right)}^{♯}$ for all $T\in {ℬ}_A\left(\mathscr{H}\right)$, where $P=A^{+}A$ and $A^{+}$ is the Moore-Penrose inverse of $A$. A similar result is also true if $\phi$ preserves $A$-quasi-unitary operators in both directions such that there...

We consider real Banach spaces X for which the quotient algebra (X)/ℐn(X) is finite-dimensional, where ℐn(X) stands for the ideal of inessential operators on X. We show that these spaces admit a decomposition as a finite direct sum of indecomposable subspaces $X_i$ for which $\left(X_i\right)/ℐn\left(X_i\right)$ is isomorphic as a real algebra to either the real numbers ℝ, the complex numbers ℂ, or the quaternion numbers ℍ. Moreover, the set of subspaces $X_i$ can be divided into subsets in such a way that if $X_i$ and $X_j$ are in different...