We describe the general form of isometries between uniformly closed function algebras on locally compact Hausdorff spaces in a continuation of the study by Miura. We can actually obtain the form on the Shilov boundary, rather than just on the Choquet boundary. We also give an example showing that the form cannot be extended to the whole maximal ideal space.

In this paper we first consider a real-linear isometry T from a certain subspace A of C(X) (endowed with supremum norm) into C(Y) where X and Y are compact Hausdorff spaces and give a result concerning the description of T whenever A is a uniform algebra on X. The result is improved for the case where T(A) is, in addition, a complex subspace of C(Y). We also give a similar description for the case where A is a function space on X and the range of T is a real subspace of C(Y) satisfying a ceratin...

Let A and B be uniformly closed function algebras on locally compact Hausdorff spaces with Choquet boundaries Ch A and ChB, respectively. We prove that if T: A → B is a surjective real-linear isometry, then there exist a continuous function κ: ChB → z ∈ ℂ: |z| = 1, a (possibly empty) closed and open subset K of ChB and a homeomorphism φ: ChB → ChA such that T(f) = κ(f ∘φ) on K and $T\left(f\right)=\kappa \overline{fo\phi }$ on ChB K for all f ∈ A. Such a representation holds for surjective real-linear isometries between (not necessarily...

The aim of this paper is to review the state-of-the-art of recent research concerning the numerical index of Banach spaces, by presenting some of the results found in the last years and proposing a number of related open problems.

Some characterizations of inner product spaces in terms of Birkhoff orthogonality are given. In this connection we define the rectangular modulus ${\mu }_{{}_X}$ of the normed space $X$. The values of the rectangular modulus at some noteworthy points are well-known constants of $X$. Characterizations (involving ${\mu }_{{}_X})$ of inner product spaces of dimension $\ge 2$, respectively $\ge 3$, are given and the behaviour of ${\mu }_{{}_X}$ is studied.

We investigate the reflexivity of the isometry group and the automorphism group of some important metric linear spaces and a1gebras. The paper consists of the following sections: 1. Preliminaries. 2. Sequence spaces. 3. Spaces of measurable functions. Hardy spaces. 5. Banach algebras of holomorphic functions. 6. Fréchet algebras of holomorphic functions. 7. Spaces of continuous functions.

A well-known result for bounded sets in inductive limits of locally convex spaces is the following: If each of the constituent spaces En are Fréchet spaces and E is the inductive limit of the spaces En, then each bounded subset of E is bounded in some En iff E is locally complete. Using DeWilde's localization theorem, we show here that the completeness of each En and the local completeness of E may be replaced with the conditions that the spaces En are all webbed K-spaces and E is locally Baire,...

We provide for every 2 ≤ k ≤ n an n-dimensional Banach space E with a unique distance ellipsoid such that there are precisely k linearly independent contact points between and $B_E$. The corresponding result holds for spaces with non-unique distance ellipsoids as well. We construct n-dimensional Banach spaces E such that one distance ellipsoid has precisely k linearly independent contact points and all other distance ellipsoids have less than k-1 such points.

We investigate rich subspaces of L₁ and deduce an interpolation property of Sidon sets. We also present examples of rich separable subspaces of nonseparable Banach spaces and we study the Daugavet property of tensor products.