In this paper we analyse a definition of a product of Banach spaces that is naturally associated by duality with a space of operators that can be considered as a generalization of the notion of space of multiplication operators. This dual relation allows to understand several constructions coming from different fields of functional analysis that can be seen as instances of the abstract one when a particular product is considered. Some relevant examples and applications are shown, regarding pointwise...

For all convolution algebras L 1[0, 1); L loc1 and A(ω) = ∩n L 1(ωn), the derivations are of the form D μ f = Xf * μ for suitable measures μ, where (Xf)(t) = tf(t). We describe the (weakly) compact as well as the (weakly) Montel derivations on these algebras in terms of properties of the measure μ. Moreover, for all these algebras we show that the extension of D μ to a natural dual space is weak-star continuous.

An Orlicz-Pettis type property for vector measures and also the “Uniform Boundedness Principle” are shown to fail without local convexity assumption. The author asks under which generalized convexity hypotheses these properties remain true. This problem is expressed in terms of barrelledness type conditions.

This paper introduces the following definition: a closed subspace Z of a Banach space E is pseudocomplemented in E if for every linear continuous operator u from Z to Z there is a linear continuous extension ū of u from E to E. For instance, every subspace complemented in E is pseudocomplemented in E. First, the pseudocomplemented hilbertian subspaces of $L¹$ are characterized and, in $L^p$ with p in [1, + ∞[, classes of closed subspaces in which the notions of complementation and pseudocomplementation...

Let (Ω,∑,μ) be a purely non-atomic measure space, and let 1 < p < ∞. If $L^{p,\infty }(\Omega ,\sum ,\mu )$ is isomorphic, as a Banach space, to $L^{p,\infty }({\Omega }^{\text{'}},{\sum }^{\text{'}},{\mu }^{\text{'}})$ for some purely atomic measure space (Ω’,∑’,μ’), then there is a measurable partition $\Omega ={\Omega }_1\cup {\Omega }_2$ such that $({\Omega }_1,\Sigma \cap {\Omega }_1,\mu {|}_{\Sigma \cap {\Omega }_1})$ is countably generated and σ-finite, and that μ(σ) = 0 or ∞ for every measurable $\sigma \subseteq {\Omega }_2$. In particular, $L^{p,\infty }(\Omega ,\sum ,\mu )$ is isomorphic to ${\ell }^{p,\infty }$.

We prove that a K-quasiconformal mapping f:ℝ² → ℝ² which maps the unit disk onto itself preserves the space EXP() of exponentially integrable functions over , in the sense that u ∈ EXP() if and only if $u\circ f^{-1}\in EXP\left(\right)$. Moreover, if f is assumed to be conformal outside the unit disk and principal, we provide the estimate $1/(1+KlogK)\le \left(\right||u\circ f^{-1}{\left|\right|}_{EXP\left(\right)}{)/(\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{EXP\left(\right)})\le 1+KlogK$ for every u ∈ EXP(). Similarly, we consider the distance from $L^{\infty }$ in EXP and we prove that if f: Ω → Ω’ is a K-quasiconformal mapping and G ⊂ ⊂ Ω, then $1/K\le \left(dis{t}_{EXP\left(f\right(G\left)\right)}(u\circ f^{-1},L^{\infty }\left(f\left(G\right)\right))\right)/\left(dis{t}_{EXP\left(f\right(G\left)\right)}(u,L^{\infty }\left(G\right))\right)\le K$ for every u ∈ EXP(). We also prove that...