The behavior of the essential spectrum and the essential norm under (complex/real) interpolation is investigated. We extend an example of Albrecht and Müller for the spectrum by showing that in complex interpolation the essential spectrum ${\sigma }_e\left(S_{\left[\theta \right]}\right)$ of an interpolated operator is also in general a discontinuous map of the parameter θ. We discuss the logarithmic convexity (up to a multiplicative constant) of the essential norm under real interpolation, and show that this holds provided certain compact approximation...

We study the behavior of the ball measure of non-compactness under several interpolation methods. First we deal with methods that interpolate couples of spaces, and then we proceed to extend the results to methods that interpolate finite families of spaces. We will need an approximation hypothesis on the target family of spaces.

We investigate the behaviour of the measure of non-compactness of an operator under real interpolation. Our results refer to general Banach couples. An application to the essential spectral radius of interpolated operators is also given.

We study a problem of interpolating a linear operator which is bounded on some family of characteristic functions. A new example is given of a Banach couple of function spaces for which such interpolation is possible. This couple is of the form $\overline{\Phi }=(B,L^{\infty })$ where B is an arbitrary Banach lattice of measurable functions on a σ-finite nonatomic measure space (Ω,Σ,μ). We also give an equivalent expression for the norm of a function ⨍ in the real interpolation space ${(B,L^{\infty })}_{\theta ,p}$ in terms of the characteristic functions of...

A scale of function spaces is considered which proved to be of considerable importance in analysis. Interpolation properties of these spaces are studied by means of the real interpolation method. The main result consists in demonstrating that this scale is interpolated in a way different from that for Lp spaces, namely, the interpolation space is not from this scale.

The paper is devoted to some aspects of the real interpolation method in the case of triples (X₀,X₁,Q) where X̅: = (X₀,X₁) is a Banach couple and Q is a convex cone. The first fundamental result of the theory, the interpolation theorem, holds in this situation (for linear operators preserving the cone structure). The second one, the reiteration theorem, holds only under some conditions on the triple. One of these conditions, the so-called intersection property, is studied for cones with respect...

We prove that the basic facts of the real interpolation method remain true for couples of cones obtained by intersection of the cone of concave functions with rearrangement invariant spaces.

We study the connection between intersection properties of balls and the existence of large faces of the unit ball in Banach spaces. Hanner’s result that a real space has the 3.2 intersection property if an only if disjoint faces of the unit ball are contained in parallel hyperplanes is extended to infinite dimensional spaces. It is shown that the space of compact operators from a space $X$ to a space $Y$ has the 3.2 intersection property if and only if $X$ and $Y$ have the 3.2 intersection property and...

We study conditions on an infinite dimensional separable Banach space $X$ implying that $X$ is the only non-trivial invariant subspace of $X^{**}$ under the action of the algebra $𝔸\left(X\right)$ of biconjugates of bounded operators on $X$: $𝔸\left(X\right)=\{T^{**}T\in ℬ\left(X\right)\}$. Such a space is called simple. We characterize simple spaces among spaces which contain an isomorphic copy of $c_0$, and show in particular that any space which does not contain ${\ell }_1$ and has property (u) of Pelczynski is simple.

We give conditions on Gromov-Hausdorff convergent inverse systems of metric measure graphs which imply that the measured Gromov-Hausdorff limit (equivalently, the inverse limit) is a PI space i.e., it satisfies a doubling condition and a Poincaré inequality in the sense of Heinonen-Koskela [12]. The Poincaré inequality is actually of type (1, 1). We also give a systematic construction of examples for which our conditions are satisfied. Included are known examples of PI spaces, such as Laakso spaces,...

Suppose that a real nonatomic function space on $[0,1]$ is equipped with two rearrangement-invariant norms $\parallel ·\parallel$ and $\left|\right||·|\left|\right|$. We study the question whether or not the fact that $(X,\parallel ·\parallel )$ is isometric to $(X,|\left|\right|·\left|\right|\left|\right)$ implies that $\parallel f\parallel =\left|\right|\left|f\right|\left|\right|$ for all $f$ in $X$. We show that in strictly monotone Orlicz and Lorentz spaces this is equivalent to asking whether or not the norms are defined by equal Orlicz functions, respĿorentz weights. We show that the above implication holds true in most rearrangement-invariant spaces, but we also identify a class...