A weak*-topological dichotomy with applications in operator theory
A weak*-topological dichotomy with applications in operator theory
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弱*-拓扑二分法及其在算子理论中的应用
DOI:
10.1112/tlms/tlu001
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发表时间:
2014
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0.8
通讯作者:
Kania T
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作者:
Kania T
Denote bythe locally compact Hausdorff space consisting of all countable ordinals, equipped with the order topology, and letbe the Banach space of scalar‐valued, continuous functions which are defined onand vanish eventually. We show that a weak‐compact subset of the dual space ofis either uniformly Eberlein compact, or it contains a homeomorphic copy of a particular form of the ordinal interval.This dichotomy yields a unifying approach to most of the existing studies of the Banach spaceand the Banach algebraof bounded, linear operators acting on it, and it leads to several new results, as well as to stronger versions of known ones. Specifically, we deduce that a Banach space which is a quotient ofcan either be embedded in a Hilbert‐generated Banach space, or it is isomorphic to the direct sum ofand a subspace of a Hilbert‐generated Banach space; and we obtain several equivalent conditions describing the Loy–Willis ideal, which is the unique maximal ideal of, including the following: an operator belongs toif and only if it factors through the Banach space. Among the consequences of these characterizations ofis thathas a bounded left approximate identity; this resolves a problem left open by Loy and Willis.