This paper is a continuation of our study of compact, power compact, Riesz, and quasicompact endomorphisms of commutative Banach algebras. Previously it has been shown that if B is a unital commutative semisimple Banach algebra with connected character space, and T is a unital endomorphism of B, then T is quasicompact if and only if the operators Tⁿ converge in operator norm to a rank-one unital endomorphism of B. In this note the discussion is extended in two ways: we discuss endomorphisms of commutative...

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...

In this paper, it is proved that the Banach algebra $\overline{\left(ℒ\right)}$, generated by a Lie algebra ℒ of operators, consists of quasinilpotent operators if ℒ consists of quasinilpotent operators and $\overline{\left(ℒ\right)}$ consists of polynomially compact operators. It is also proved that $\overline{\left(ℒ\right)}$ consists of quasinilpotent operators if ℒ is an essentially nilpotent Engel Lie algebra generated by quasinilpotent operators. Finally, Banach algebras generated by essentially nilpotent Lie algebras are shown to be compactly quasinilpotent.

We will prove the statement in the title. We also give a better estimate for the hyperreflexivity constant for an analytic Toeplitz operator.

We consider a general concept of Daugavet property with respect to a norming subspace. This concept covers both the usual Daugavet property and its weak* analogue. We introduce and study analogues of narrow operators and rich subspaces in this general setting and apply the results to show that a quotient of L₁[0,1] by an ℓ₁-subspace need not have the Daugavet property. The latter answers in the negative a question posed to us by A. Pełczyński.

Here we present and example and some results suggesting that there is no infinite-dimensional reflexive subspace Z of L1 ≡ L1[0,1] such that the quotient L1/Z is isomorphic to a subspace of L1.

We establish weighted Hardy-Littlewood inequalities for radial derivative and fractional radial derivatives on bounded symmetric domains.

An RD-space $𝒳$ is a space of homogeneous type in the sense of Coifman and Weiss with the additional property that a reverse doubling property holds. The authors prove that for a space of homogeneous type $𝒳$ having “dimension” $n$, there exists a $p_0\in (n/(n+1),1)$ such that for certain classes of distributions, the $L^p\left(𝒳\right)$ quasi-norms of their radial maximal functions and grand maximal functions are equivalent when $p\in (p_0,\infty ]$. This result yields a radial maximal function characterization for Hardy spaces on $𝒳$.

Let $G={*}_{j=1}^{q+1}{G}_{n_j+1}$ be the product of $q+1$ finite groups each having order $n_j+1$ and let $\mu$ be the probability measure which takes the value $p_j/n_j$ on each element of $G_{n_j+1}\setminus \left\{e\right\}$. In this paper we shall describe the point spectrum of $\mu$ in $C_{\mathrm{reg}}^{*}\left(G\right)$ and the corresponding eigenspaces. In particular we shall see that the point spectrum occurs only for suitable choices of the numbers $n_j$. We also compute the continuous spectrum of $\mu$ in $C_{\mathrm{reg}}^{*}\left(G\right)$ in several cases. A family of irreducible representations of $G$, parametrized on the continuous spectrum of $\mu$,...

Let A be a Banach algebra, and let D : A → A be a (possibly unbounded) derivation. We are interested in two problems concerning the range of D: 1. When does D map into the (Jacobson) radical of A? 2. If [a,Da] = 0 for some a ∈ A, is Da necessarily quasinilpotent? We prove that derivations satisfying certain polynomial identities map into the radical. As an application, we show that if [a,[a,[a,Da]]] lies in the prime radical of A for all a ∈ A, then D maps into the radical. This generalizes a result...

For 0 ≤ α < 1, an operator U ∈ L(X,Y) is called a rank α operator if $xₙ{\to }^{{\tau }_{\alpha }}x$ implies Uxₙ → Ux in norm. We give some results on rank α operators, including an interpolation result and a characterization of rank α operators U: C(T,X) → Y in terms of their representing measures.