Necessary and sufficient conditions are found for the exponential Orlicz norm (generated by ${\psi }_p\left(x\right)={exp\left(\right|x|}^p)-1$ with 0 < p ≤ 2) of $ma{x}_{0\le t\le \tau }\left|B_t\right|$ or $|B_{\tau }|$ to be finite, where $B={\left(B_t\right)}_{t\ge 0}$ is a standard Brownian motion and τ is a stopping time for B. The conditions are in terms of the moments of the stopping time τ. For instance, we find that $\parallel ma{x}_{0\le t\le \tau }\left|B_t\right|{\parallel }_{{\psi }_1}<\infty$ as soon as $E\left({\tau }^k\right)=O\left(C^k{k}^k\right)$ for some constant C > 0 as k → ∞ (or equivalently $\parallel \tau {\parallel }_{{\psi }_1}<\infty$). In particular, if τ ∼ Exp(λ) or $\left|N\right(0,{\sigma }^2\left)\right|$ then the last condition is satisfied, and we obtain $\parallel ma{x}_{0\le t\le \tau }\left|B_t\right|{\parallel }_{{\psi }_1}\le K\surd E\left(\tau \right)$ with some universal constant K > 0....

In one of the earliest monographs that involve the notion of a Schauder basis, Franklin showed that the Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization of a certain Schauder basis for the Banach space of functions continuous on [0,1] is again a Schauder basis for that space. Subsequently, Ciesielski observed that the Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization of any Schauder system is a Schauder basis not only for C[0,1], but also for each of the spaces $L^p[0,1]$, 1 ≤ p < ∞. Although perhaps not probable, the latter result would...

Characterization of the mapping properties such as boundedness, compactness, measure of non-compactness and estimates of the approximation numbers of Hardy-type integral operators in Banach function spaces are given.

Let X be a completely regular topological space and A a commutative locally m-convex algebra. We give a description of all closed and in particular closed maximal ideals of the algebra C(X,A) (= all continuous A-valued functions defined on X). The topology on C(X,A) is defined by a certain family of seminorms. The compact-open topology of C(X,A) is a special case of this topology.

We study the geometrical properties of a unit vector field on a Riemannian 2-manifold, considering the field as a local imbedding of the manifold into its tangent sphere bundle with the Sasaki metric. For the case of constant curvature $K$, we give a description of the totally geodesic unit vector fields for $K=0$ and $K=1$ and prove a non-existence result for $K\ne 0,1$. We also found a family ${\xi }_{\omega }$ of vector fields on the hyperbolic 2-plane $L^2$ of curvature $-c^2$ which generate foliations on $T_1{L}^2$ with leaves of constant intrinsic...