Second Order Optimality Conditions in Nonsmooth Unconstrained Optimization

AMS subject classification: 49J52, 90C30.

Well-Behavior, Well-Posedness and Nonsmooth Analysis

AMS subject classification: 90C30, 90C33.

Well-Posedness and Conditioning of Optimization Problems

AMS subject classification: 49K40, 90C31.

Kadec Norms on Spaces of Continuous Functions

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 46B03, 46B26. Secondary: 46E15, 54C35.

An Iterative Procedure for Solving Nonsmooth Generalized Equation

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 47H04, 65K10.

Steffensen Methods for Solving Generalized Equations

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 65G99, 65K10, 47H04.

More lr saturated L∞ spaces

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05D10, 46B03.

More elementary operators that are spectrally bounded

We discuss some necessary and some sufficient conditions for an elementary operator x↦∑ⁿ_i=1a_ixb_i on a Banach algebra A to be spectrally bounded. In the case of length three, we obtain a complete characterisation when A acts irreducibly on a Banach space of dimension greater than three.

Existence of disjoint weakly mixing operators that fail to satisfy the Disjoint Hypercyclicity Criterion

Recently, Bès, Martin, and Sanders [11] provided examples of disjoint hypercyclic operators which fail to satisfy the Disjoint Hypercyclicity Criterion. However, their operators also fail to be disjoint weakly mixing. We show that every separable, infinite dimensional Banach space admits operators T1,T2,…,TN with N⩾2 which are disjoint weakly mixing, and still fail to satisfy the Disjoint Hypercyclicity Criterion, answering a question posed in [11]. Moreover, we provide examples of disjoint hypercyclic operators T1, T2 whose corresponding set of disjoint hypercyclic vectors is nowhere dense, answering another question posed in [11]. In fact, we explicitly describe their set of disjoint hypercyclic vectors. Those same disjoint hypercyclic operators fail to be disjoint topologically transitive. Lastly, we create examples of two families of d-hypercyclic operators which fail to have any d-hypercyclic vectors in common.

Nonlinear preservers

Dans cette thèse, nous sommes intéressés par des problèmes de préservation des applications non-linéaires entre deux algèbres de Banach complexes unitaires A et B. En général, ces problèmes demandent la caractérisation des applications φ : A → B non nécessairement linéaires, qui laissent invariant une propriété, une relation ou un sous-ensemble. Dans le Chapitre 3, la description des applications surjectives φ de B(X) sur B(Y), qui satisfont c(φ(S)±φ(T)) = c(S ± T), (S,T ∈ B(X)), est donnée, où c(·) représente soit le module minimal, ou le module de surjectivité ou le module maximal et B(X) (resp. B(Y)) dénote l’algèbre de tous les opérateurs linéaires et bornés sur X (resp. sur Y). Dans le Chapitre 4, une question similaire pour la conorme des opérateurs, est considérée. La caractérisation des applications bicontinues et bijectives φ deB(X) surB(Y), qui satisfont γ(φ(S ± φ(T)) = γ(S ± T), (S,T ∈ B(X)), est obtenue. Le Chapitre 5 est consacré à la description des applications surjectives φ1,φ2 d’une algèbre de Banach semisimple A sur une algèbre de Banach B avec un socle essentiel, qui satisfont σ(φ1(a)φ2(b)) = σ(ab), (a,b ∈ A). Aussi, la caractérisation des applications φ de A sur B, sous les mêmes hypothèses sur A et B, qui satisfont σ(φ(a)φ(b)φ(a)) = σ(aba), (a,b ∈ A), est donnée. Comme conséquences, nous incluons les résultats obtenus au cas des algèbres B(X) et B(Y).

Convergence Properties and Fixed Points of Two General Iterative Schemes with Composed Maps in Banach Spaces with Applications to Guaranteed Global Stability

This paper investigates the boundedness and convergence properties of two general iterative processes which involve sequences of self-mappings on either complete metric or Banach spaces. The sequences of self-mappings considered in the first iterative scheme are constructed by linear combinations of a set of self-mappings, each of them being a weighted version of a certain primary self-mapping on the same space. The sequences of self-mappings of the second iterative scheme are powers of an iteration-dependent scaled version of the primary self-mapping. Some applications are also given to the important problem of global stability of a class of extended nonlinear polytopic-type parameterizations of certain dynamic systems.

Banach spaces without minimal subspaces

We prove three new dichotomies for Banach spaces a la W.T. Gowers` dichotomies. The three dichotomies characterise respectively the spaces having no minimal subspaces, having no subsequentially minimal basic sequences, and having no subspaces crudely finitely representable in all of their subspaces. We subsequently use these results to make progress on Gowers` program of classifying Banach spaces by finding characteristic spaces present in every space. Also, the results are used to embed any partial order of size K I into the subspaces of any space without a minimal subspace ordered by isomorphic embeddability. (c) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All fights reserved.

Spectral synthesis and topologies on ideal spaces for Banach *-algebras

This paper continues the study of spectral synthesis and the topologies τ∞ and τr on the ideal space of a Banach algebra, concentrating on the class of Banach *-algebras, and in particular on L1-group algebras. It is shown that if a group G is a finite extension of an abelian group then τr is Hausdorff on the ideal space of L1(G) if and only if L1(G) has spectral synthesis, which in turn is equivalent to G being compact. The result is applied to nilpotent groups, [FD]−-groups, and Moore groups. An example is given of a non-compact, non-abelian group G for which L1(G) has spectral synthesis. It is also shown that if G is a non-discrete group then τr is not Hausdorff on the ideal lattice of the Fourier algebra A(G).