On the theta lift from SO2n+1 to ...n.
We prove that a semisimple, commutative Banach algebra has either exactly one uniform norm or infinitely many uniform norms; this answers a question asked by S. J. Bhatt and H. V. Dedania [Studia Math. 160 (2004)]. A similar result is proved for C*-norms on *-semisimple, commutative Banach *-algebras. These properties are preserved if the identity is adjoined. We also show that a commutative Beurling *-algebra L¹(G,ω) has exactly one uniform norm if and only if it has exactly one C*-norm; this is...
A (Hausdorff) topological group is said to have a -base if it admits a base of neighbourhoods of the unit, , such that whenever β ≤ α for all . The class of all metrizable topological groups is a proper subclass of the class of all topological groups having a -base. We prove that a topological group is metrizable iff it is Fréchet-Urysohn and has a -base. We also show that any precompact set in a topological group is metrizable, and hence G is strictly angelic. We deduce from this result...