In a former paper we describe the geometric properties of the space of continuous functions with values in the space of operators acting on a Hilbert space. In particular we show that dent B(L(H)) = ext B(L(H)) if dim H < 8 and card K < 8 and dent B(L(H)) = 0 if dim H < 8 or card K = 8, and x-ext C(K,L(H)) = ext C(K,L(H)).

Under some mild assumptions, non-linear diameter-preserving bijections between (vector-valued) function spaces are characterized with the help of a well-known theorem of Ulam and Mazur. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a diameter-preserving bijection between function spaces in the complex scalar case is derived, and a complete description of such maps is given in several important cases.

A bounded linear operator between Banach spaces is called a Dieudonné operator ( = weakly completely continuous operator) if it maps weakly Cauchy sequences to weakly convergent sequences. Let (Ω,Σ,μ) be a finite measure space, and let X and Y be Banach spaces. We study Dieudonné operators T: L¹(X) → Y. Let $i_{\infty }:L^{\infty }\left(X\right)\to L¹\left(X\right)$ stand for the canonical injection. We show that if X is almost reflexive and T: L¹(X) → Y is a Dieudonné operator, then $T\circ i_{\infty }:L^{\infty }\left(X\right)\to Y$ is a weakly compact operator. Moreover, we obtain that if T: L¹(X)...

We quantify the extent to which a supercritical Sobolev mapping can increase the dimension of subsets of its domain, in the setting of metric measure spaces supporting a Poincaré inequality. We show that the set of mappings that distort the dimensions of sets by the maximum possible amount is a prevalent subset of the relevant function space. For foliations of a metric space X defined by a David–Semmes regular mapping Π : X → W, we quantitatively estimate, in terms of Hausdorff dimension in W, the...

We determine the duals of the homogeneous matrix-weighted Besov spaces ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ and ${ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ which were previously defined in [5]. If W is a matrix $A_p$ weight, then the dual of ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ can be identified with ${Ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(W^{-p^{\text{'}}/p}\right)$ and, similarly, $\left[{ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)\right]*\approx {ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(W^{-p^{\text{'}}/p}\right)$. Moreover, for certain W which may not be in the $A_p$ class, the duals of ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ and ${ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ are determined and expressed in terms of the Besov spaces ${Ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(A_Q^{-1}\right)$ and ${ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(A_Q^{-1}\right)$, which we define in terms of reducing operators ${A_Q}_Q$ associated with W. We also develop the basic theory of these reducing operator Besov spaces. Similar...

We study the duals of the spaces $A^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)$ of harmonic functions in the unit ball of ${ℝ}^n$ with values in a Banach space X, belonging to the Bochner $L^p$ space with weight ${(1-|x\left|\right)}^{\alpha }$, denoted by $L^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)$. For 0 < α < p-1 we construct continuous projections onto $A^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)$ providing a decomposition $L^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)=A^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)+M^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)$. We discuss the conditions on p, α and X for which $A^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)*=A^{q\alpha }(X*)$ and $M^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)*=M^{q\alpha }(X*)$, 1/p+1/q = 1. The last equality is equivalent to the Radon-Nikodým property of X*.

Let $X$ be a completely regular Hausdorff space, $E$ a real normed space, and let $C_b(X,E)$ be the space of all bounded continuous $E$-valued functions on $X$. We develop the general duality theory of the space $C_b(X,E)$ endowed with locally solid topologies; in particular with the strict topologies ${\beta }_z(X,E)$ for $z=\sigma ,\tau ,t$. As an application, we consider criteria for relative weak-star compactness in the spaces of vector measures $M_z(X,E^{\text{'}})$ for $z=\sigma ,\tau ,t$. It is shown that if a subset $H$ of $M_z(X,E^{\text{'}})$ is relatively $\sigma (M_z(X,E^{\text{'}}),C_b(X,E))$-compact, then the set $conv\left(S\right(H\left)\right)$ is still relatively $\sigma (M_z(X,E^{\text{'}}),C_b(X,E))$-compact...

Let (Ω,Σ,μ) be a finite measure space and let X be a real Banach space. Let $L^{\Phi }\left(X\right)$ be the Orlicz-Bochner space defined by a Young function Φ. We study the relationships between Dunford-Pettis operators T from L¹(X) to a Banach space Y and the compactness properties of the operators T restricted to $L^{\Phi }\left(X\right)$. In particular, it is shown that if X is a reflexive Banach space, then a bounded linear operator T:L¹(X) → Y is Dunford-Pettis if and only if T restricted to $L^{\infty }\left(X\right)$ is $(\tau (L^{\infty }\left(X\right),L¹(X*)),|\left|·\right|{|}_Y)$-compact.