On the spectral radius of compact operator cocycles

We extend the notions of joint and generalized spectral radii to cocycles acting on Banach spaces and obtain a version of Berger–Wang’s formula when restricted to the space of cocycles taking values in the space of compact operators. Moreover, we observe that the previous quantities depends continuously on the underlying cocycle.

Uniqueness of norm-preserving extensions of functionals on the space of compact operators

Godefroy, Kalton, and Saphar called a closed subspace $Y$ of a Banach space $Z$ an ideal if its annihilator $Y^\bot $ is the kernel of a norm-one projection $P$ on the dual space $Z^\ast $. If $Y$ is an ideal in $Z$ with respect to a projection on $Z^\ast $ whose range is norming for $Z$, then $Y$ is said to be a strict ideal. We study uniqueness of norm-preserving extensions of functionals on the space $\mathcal{K}(X,Y) $ of compact operators between Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$ to the larger space $\mathcal{K}(X,Z) $ under the assumption that $Y$ is a strict ideal in $Z$. Our main results are: (1) if $y^\ast $ is an extreme point of $B_{Y^{\ast} }$ having a unique norm-preserving extension to $Z$, and $x^{\ast\ast} \in B_{X^{\ast\ast} }$, then the only norm-preserving extension of the functional $x^{\ast\ast} \otimes y^\ast \in \mathcal {K}(X,Y)^\ast $ to $\mathcal {K}(X,Z)$ is $x^{\ast\ast} \otimes z^\ast $ where $z^\ast \in Z^\ast $ is the only norm-preserving extension of $y^\ast $ to $Z$; (2) if $\mathcal{K}(X,Y) $ is an ideal in $\mathcal{K}(X,Z) $ and $Y$ has Phelps' property $U$ in its bidual $Y^{\ast\ast} $ (i.e., every bounded linear functional on $Y$ admits a unique norm-preserving extension to $Y^{\ast\ast} $), then $\mathcal{K}(X,Y) $ has property $U$ in $\mathcal{K}(X,Z) $ whenever $X^{\ast\ast} $ has the Radon-Nikodým property.

Hölder continuity of Oseledets splittings for semi-invertible operator cocycles

For Hölder continuous cocycles over an invertible, Lipschitz base, we establish the Hölder continuity of Oseledets subspaces on compact sets of arbitrarily large measure. This extends a result of Araújo et al [On Hölder-continuity of Oseledets subspaces J. Lond. Math. Soc.93 (2016) 194–218] by considering possibly non-invertible cocycles, which, in addition, may take values in the space of compact operators on a Hilbert space. As a by-product of our work, we also show that a non-invertible cocycle with non-vanishing Lyapunov exponents exhibits non-uniformly hyperbolic behaviour (in the sense of Pesin) on a set of full measure.

ON QUANTITATIVE SCHUR AND DUNFORD–PETTIS PROPERTIES

We show that the dual to any subspace of $c_{0}({\rm\Gamma})$ (${\rm\Gamma}$ is an arbitrary index set) has the strongest possible quantitative version of the Schur property. Further, we establish a relationship between the quantitative Schur property and quantitative versions of the Dunford–Pettis property. Finally, we apply these results to show, in particular, that any subspace of the space of compact operators on $\ell _{p}$ ($1<p<\infty$) with the Dunford–Pettis property automatically satisfies both its quantitative versions.

Non-complemented Spaces of Operators, Vector Measures, and co

The Banach spaces L(X, Y), K(X,Y), Lw* (X*, Y), and Kw* (X*, Y) are studied to determine when they contain the classical Banach spaces co or ℓ∞. The complementation of the Banach space K(X, Y) in L(X, Y) is discussed as well as what impact this complementation has on the embedding of co or ℓ∞ in K(X, Y) or L(X, Y). Results of Kalton, Feder, and Emmanuele concerning the complementation of K(X, Y) in L(X, Y) are generalized. Results concerning the complementation of the Banach space Kw* (X*, Y) in Lw* (X*, Y) are also explored as well as how that complementation affects the embedding of co or ℓ∞ in Kw* (X*, Y) or Lw* (X*, Y). The ℓp spaces for 1 = p < ∞ are studied to determine when the space of compact operators from one ℓp space to another contains co. The paper contains a new result which classifies these spaces of operators. A new result using vector measures is given to provide more efficient proofs of theorems by Kalton, Feder, Emmanuele, Emmanuele and John, and Bator and Lewis.

The unicity of best approximation in a space of compact operators

Chebyshev subspaces of $\mathcal{K}(c_0,c_0)$ are studied. A $k$-dimensional non-interpolating Chebyshev subspace is constructed. The unicity of best approximation in non-Chebyshev subspaces is considered.

On Compact and Fredholm Operators over C*-algebras and a New Topology in the Space of Compact Operators

It is well-known that bounded operators in Hilbert C*-modules over C*-algebras may not be adjointable and the same is true for compact operators. So, there are two analogs for classical compact operators in Hilbert C*-modules: adjointable compact operators and all compact operators, i.e. those not necessarily having an adjoint.Classical Fredholm operators are those that are invertible modulo compact operators. When the notion of a Fredholm operator in a Hilbert C*-module was developed in [6], the first analog was used: Fredholm operators were defined as operators that are invertible modulo adjointable compact operators.In this paper we use the second analog and develop a more general version of Fredholm operators over C*-algebras. Such operators are defined as bounded operators that are invertible modulo the ideal of all compact operators. The main property of this new class is that a Fredholm operator still has a decomposition into a direct sum of an isomorphism and a finitely generated operator.The special case of Fredholm operators (in the sense of [6]) over the commutative C*-algebra C(K) of continuous functions on a compact topological space K was also considered in [2]. In order to describe general Fredholm operators (invertible modulo all compact operators over C(K)) we construct a new IM-topology on the space of compact operators on a Hilbert space such that continuous families of compact operators generate the ideal of all compact operators over C(K).