Let ${\left\{\beta \left(n\right)\right\}}_{n=0}^{\mathrm{\infty }}$ be a sequence of positive numbers and $1\le p<\mathrm{\infty }$. We consider the space $H^p\left(\beta \right)$ of all power series $f\left(z\right)={\sum }_{n=0}^{\mathrm{\infty }}\stackrel{⌃}{f}\left(n\right)z^n$ such that ${\sum }_{n=0}^{\mathrm{\infty }}{\left|\stackrel{⌃}{f}\left(n\right)\right|}^p\beta {\left(n\right)}^p<\mathrm{\infty }$ . Suppose that $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}=1$ and ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\mathrm{\infty }}\frac{n^{qj}}{\beta {\left(n\right)}^q}=\mathrm{\infty }$ for some nonnegative integer $j$. We show that if $C_{\phi }$ is compact on $H^p\left(\beta \right)$, then the non-tangential limit of ${\phi }^{\left(j+1\right)}$ has modulus greater than one at each boundary point of the open unit disc. Also we show that if $C_{\phi }$ is Fredholm on $H_p\left(\beta \right)$, then $\phi$ must be an automorphism of the open unit disc.

The invertible, closed range, compact, Fredholm and isometric composition operators on Musielak-Orlicz spaces of Bochner type are characterized in the paper.

Let Ω ⊂ ℝn be an open set and X(Ω) be any rearrangement invariant function space close to L q(Ω), i.e. X has the q-scaling property. We prove that each homeomorphism f which induces the composition operator u ↦ u ℴ f from W 1 X to W 1 X is necessarily a q-quasiconformal mapping. We also give some new results for the sufficiency of this condition for the composition operator.

In this paper we prove some composition results for strongly summing and dominated operators. As an application we give necessary and sufficient conditions for a multilinear tensor product of multilinear operators to be strongly summing or dominated. Moreover, we show the failure of some possible n-linear versions of Grothendieck’s composition theorem in the case n ≥ 2 and give a new example of a 1-dominated, hence strongly 1-summing bilinear operator which is not weakly compact.

New compound geometric invariants are constructed in order to characterize complemented embeddings of Cartesian products of power series spaces. Bessaga's conjecture is proved for the same class of spaces.

The notion of a compressible operator on a Banach space, E, derives from automatic continuity arguments. It is related to the notion of a cartesian Banach space. The compressible operators on E form an ideal in ℬ(E) and the automatic continuity proofs depend on showing that this ideal is large. In particular, it is shown that each weakly compact operator on the James' space, J, is compressible, whence it follows that all homomorphisms from ℬ(J) are continuous.

We use free probability techniques to compute spectra and Brown measures of some non-hermitian operators in finite von Neumann algebras. Examples include $uₙ+u_{\infty }$ where uₙ and $u_{\infty }$ are the generators of ℤₙ and ℤ respectively, in the free product ℤₙ*ℤ, or elliptic elements of the form $S_{\alpha }+i{S}_{\beta }$ where $S_{\alpha }$ and $S_{\beta }$ are free semicircular elements of variance α and β.

We introduce a method to compute rigorous component-wise enclosures of discrete convolutions using the fast Fourier transform, the properties of Banach algebras, and interval arithmetic. The purpose of this new approach is to improve the implementation and the applicability of computer-assisted proofs performed in weighed ${\ell }^1$ Banach algebras of Fourier/Chebyshev sequences, whose norms are known to be numerically unstable. We introduce some application examples, in particular a rigorous aposteriori...