According to the von Neumann-Halperin and Lapidus theorems, in a Hilbert space the iterates of products or, respectively, of convex combinations of orthoprojections are strongly convergent. We extend these results to the iterates of convex combinations of products of some projections in a complex Banach space. The latter is assumed uniformly convex or uniformly smooth for the orthoprojections, or reflexive for more special projections, in particular, for the hermitian ones. In all cases the proof...

Dans une algèbre de Banach et dans deux cas particuliers, nous montrons la continuité du centre du plus petit disque contenant le spectre. Pour a ∈ , on donne une condition nécessaire et suffisante pour avoir $R_K=d\left(a\right)$ où d(a) est la distance de a aux scalaires et $R_K$ le rayon du plus petit disque contenant K qui représente le spectre ou le domaine numérique algébrique de a. Dans un espace de Hilbert complexe, K peut représenter certains types de spectres ou de domaines numériques de a.

Let $A$ be a unital Banach algebra over $ℂ$, and suppose that the nonzero spectral values of $a$ and $b\in A$ are discrete sets which cluster at $0\in ℂ$, if anywhere. We develop a plane geometric formula for the spectral semidistance of $a$ and $b$ which depends on the two spectra, and the orthogonality relationships between the corresponding sets of Riesz projections associated with the nonzero spectral values. Extending a result of Brits and Raubenheimer, we further show that $a$ and $b$ are quasinilpotent equivalent if...

Si prova resistenza globale della soluzione di una equazione di Riccati collegata alla sintesi di un problema di controllo ottimale. Il problema considerato rappresenta la versione astratta di alcuni problemi governati da equazioni paraboliche con il controllo sulla frontiera.

The problem of distributing two conducting materials with a prescribed volume ratio in a ball so as to minimize the first eigenvalue of an elliptic operator with Dirichlet conditions is considered in two and three dimensions. The gap ε between the two conductivities is assumed to be small (low contrast regime). The main result of the paper is to show, using asymptotic expansions with respect to ε and to small geometric perturbations of the optimal shape, that the global minimum of the first eigenvalue...

It will be proved that if $N$ is a bounded nilpotent operator on a Banach space $X$ of order $k+1$, where $k\ge 1$ is an integer, then the $\gamma$-th order Cesàro mean $C_t^{\gamma }:=\gamma t^{-\gamma }{\int }_0^t{(t-s)}^{\gamma -1}T\left(s\right)ds$ and Abel mean $A_{\lambda }:=\lambda {\int }_0^{\infty }{e}^{-\lambda s}T\left(s\right)ds$ of the uniformly continuous semigroup ${\left(T\left(t\right)\right)}_{t\ge 0}$ of bounded linear operators on $X$ generated by $iaI+N$, where $0\ne a\in ℝ$, satisfy that (a) $\parallel C_t^{\gamma }\parallel \sim t^{k-\gamma }(t\to \infty )$ for all $0<\gamma \le k+1$; (b) $\parallel C_t^{\gamma }\parallel \sim t^{-1}(t\to \infty )$ for all $\gamma \ge k+1$; (c) $\parallel A_{\lambda }\parallel \sim \lambda (\lambda \downarrow 0)$. A similar result will be also proved for the uniformly continuous cosine function ${\left(C\left(t\right)\right)}_{t\ge 0}$ of bounded linear operators on $X$ generated by ${(iaI+N)}^2$.

We characterise the boundedness of the $H^{\infty }$ calculus of a sectorial operator in terms of dilation theorems. We show e. g. that if $-A$ generates a bounded analytic $C_0$ semigroup $\left(T_t\right)$ on a UMD space, then the $H^{\infty }$ calculus of $A$ is bounded if and only if $\left(T_t\right)$ has a dilation to a bounded group on $L^2([0,1],X)$. This generalises a Hilbert space result of C.LeMerdy. If $X$ is an $L^p$ space we can choose another $L^p$ space in place of $L^2([0,1],X)$.

Let $A$ be the $L^p$ realization ($1\&lt;p\&lt;\infty$) of a differential operator $P(D_x,D_t)$ on ${ℝ}^n\times {ℝ}^{+}$ with general boundary conditions $B_k(D_x,D_t)u(x,0)=0$ ($1\le k\le m$). Here $P$ is a homogeneous polynomial of order $2m$ in $n+1$ complex variables that satisfies a suitable ellipticity condition, and for $1\le k\le m$$B_k$ is a homogeneous polynomial of order...

We give a concise exposition of the basic theory of $H^{\infty }$ functional calculus for N-tuples of sectorial or bisectorial operators, with respect to operator-valued functions; moreover we restate and prove in our setting a result of N. Kalton and L. Weis about the boundedness of the operator $f(T₁,...,T_N)$ when f is an R-bounded operator-valued holomorphic function.

Let A be a linear closed densely defined operator in a complex Banach space X. If A is of type ω (i.e. the spectrum of A is contained in a sector of angle 2ω, symmetric around the real positive axis, and $\parallel \lambda {(\lambda I-A)}^{-1}\parallel$ is bounded outside every larger sector) and has a bounded inverse, then A has a bounded $H^{\infty }$ functional calculus in the real interpolation spaces between X and the domain of the operator itself.