We present partial positive results supporting a conjecture that admitting an equivalent Lipschitz (or uniformly) weak$^*$ Kadec--Klee norm is a three space property.

We prove that a separable, nuclear, purely infinite, simple $C^*$-algebra satisfying the universal coefficient theorem is weakly semiprojective if and only if its $K$-groups are direct sums of cyclic groups.

Let $A$ be a stable, separable, real rank zero $C^{*}$-algebra, and suppose that $A$ has an AF-skeleton with only finitely many extreme traces. Then the corona algebra ${\mathcal M}(A)/A$ is purely infinite in the sense of Kirchberg and R\o rdam, which implies that $A$ has the corona factorization property.

Using ideas of S. Wassermann on non-exact $C^*$-algebras and property T groups, we show that one of his examples of non-invertible $C^*$-extensions is not semi-invertible. To prove this, we show that a certain element vanishes in the asymptotic tensor product. We also show that a modification of the example gives a $C^*$-extension which is not even invertible up to homotopy.

We show that there exists a closed infinite dimensional subspace of $H^\infty(B^n)$ such that every function of norm one is universal for some sequence of automorphisms of $B^n$.

In this paper we introduce a nested family of spaces of continuous functions defined on the spectrum of a uniform algebra. The smallest space in the family is the uniform algebra itself. In the ``finite dimensional'' case, from some point on the spaces will be the space of all continuous complex-valued functions on the spectrum. These spaces are defined in terms of solutions to the nonlinear Cauchy--Riemann equations as introduced by the author in 1976, so they are not generally linear spaces of functions. However, these spaces do shed light on the higher dimensional properties of a uniform algebra. In particular, these spaces are directly related to the generalized Shilov boundary of the uniform algebra (as defined by the author and, independently, by Sibony in the early 1970s).

Given a finite group $G$, we examine the classification of all frame representations of $G$ and the classification of all $G$-frames, \emph{i.e.,} frames induced by group representations of $G$. We show that the exact number of equivalence classes of $G$-frames and the exact number of frame representations can be explicitly calculated. We also discuss how to calculate the largest number $L$ such that there exists an $L$-tuple of strongly disjoint $G$-frames.

We study the structure of the sets of symmetric sequences and spreading models of an Orlicz sequence space equipped with partial order with respect to domination of bases. In the cases that these sets are ``small'', some descriptions of the structure of these posets are obtained.

We show that there exists a non-archimedean Fr\'echet-Montel space $W$ with a basis and with a continuous norm such that any non-archimedean Fr\'echet space of countable type is isomorphic to a quotient of $W$. We also prove that any non-archimedean nuclear Fr\'echet space is isomorphic to a quotient of some non-archimedean nuclear Fr\'echet space with a basis and with a continuous norm.

We prove that convex sets are measure convex and extremal sets are measure extremal provided they are of low Borel complexity. We also present examples showing that the positive results cannot be strengthened.

In this paper, we consider the behavior of the commutators of convolution operators on the Triebel--Lizorkin spaces $\dot{F}^{s, q} _p$.

Free analogues of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality compare the relative free Fisher information with the relative free entropy. In the present paper such an inequality is obtained for measures on the circle. The method is based on a random matrix approximation procedure, and a large deviation result concerning the eigenvalue distribution of special unitary matrices is applied and discussed.

This paper is concerned with the structure of inner $E_0$-semigroups. We show that any inner $E_0$-semigroup acting on an infinite factor $M$ is completely determined by a continuous tensor product system of Hilbert spaces in $M$ and that the product system associated with an inner $E_0$-semigroup is a complete cocycle conjugacy invariant.

An invariant is presented which classifies, up to equivariant isomorphism, $C^*$-dynamical systems arising as limits from inductive systems of elementary $C^*$-algebras on which the Euclidean motion group acts by way of unitary representations that decompose into finite direct sums of irreducibles.

We prove a self-adjoint analogue of the Marcus--Pisier inequality, comparing the expected value of convex functionals on randomreflection matrices and on elements of the Gaussian orthogonal (or unitary) ensemble.

Given a centrally symmetric convex body $B$ in $\E^d,$ we denote by $\M^d(B)$ the Minkowski space ({\em i.e.,} finite dimensional Banach space) with unit ball $B.$ Let $K$ be an arbitrary convex body in $\M^d(B).$ The relationship between volume $V(K)$ and the Minkowskian thickness ($=$ minimal width) $\thns_B(K)$ of $K$ can naturally be given by the sharp geometric inequality $V(K) \ge \alpha(B) \cdot \thns_B(K)^d,$ where $\alpha(B)>0.$ As a simple corollary of the Rogers--Shephard inequality we obtain that $\binom{2d}{d}{}^{-1} \le \alpha(B)/V(B) \le 2^{-d}$ with equality on the left attained if and only if $B$ is the difference body of a simplex and on the right if $B$ is a cross-polytope. The main result of this paper is that for $d=2$ the equality on the right implies that $B$ is a parallelogram. The obtained results yield the sharp upper bound for the modified Banach--Mazur distance to the regular hexagon.

We consider the w$^*$-closed operator algebra $\cA_+$ generated by the image of the semigroup $SL_2(\R_+)$ under a unitary representation $\rho$ of $SL_2(\R)$ on the Hilbert~space $L_2(\R)$. We show that $\cA_+$ is a reflexive operator algebra and $\cA_+=\Alg\cD$ where $\cD$ is a double triangle subspace lattice. Surprisingly, $\cA_+$ is also generated as a w$^*$-closed algebra by the image under $\rho$ of a strict subsemigroup of $SL_2(\R_+)$.

We characterize the weight functions $u,v,w$ on $(0,\infty)$ such that $$ \left(\int_0^\infty f^{*}(t)^ qw(t)\,dt\right)^{1/q} \leq C \sup_{t\in(0,\infty)}f^{**}_u(t)v(t), $$ where $$ f^{**}_u(t):=\left(\int_{0}^{t}u(s)\,ds\right)^{-1} \int_{0}^{t}f^*(s)u(s)\,ds. $$ As an application we present a~new simple characterization of the associate space to the space $\Gamma^ \infty(v)$, determined by the norm $$ \|f\|_{\Gamma^ \infty(v)}=\sup_{t\in(0,\infty)}f^{**}(t)v(t), $$ where $$ f^{**}(t):=\frac1t\int_{0}^{t}f^*(s)\,ds. $$

For a given irrational number $\theta$, we define Toeplitz operators with symbols in the irrational rotation algebra ${\mathcal A}_\theta$, and we show that the $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal T({\mathcal A}_\theta)$ generated by these Toeplitz operators is an extension of ${\mathcal A}_\theta$ by the algebra of compact operators. We then use these extensions to explicitly exhibit generators of the group $KK^1({\mathcal A}_\theta,\mathbb C)$. We also prove an index theorem for $\mathcal T({\mathcal A}_\theta)$ that generalizes the standard index theorem for Toeplitz operators on the circle.

We establish sufficient conditions on the shape of a set $A$ included in the space $\mathcal L _s^n(X,Y)$ of the $n$-linear symmetric mappings between Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$, to ensure the existence of a $C^n$\nobreakdash-smooth mapping $f\colon X \rightarrow Y$, with bounded support, and such that $f^{(n)}(X)=A$, provided that $X$ admits a $C^{n}$-smooth bump with bounded $n$-th derivative and $\dens X=\dens \mathcal L ^n(X,Y)$. For instance, when $X$ is infinite-dimensional, every bounded connected and open set $U$ containing the origin is the range of the $n$-th derivative of such a mapping. The same holds true for the closure of $U$, provided that every point in the boundary of $U$ is the end point of a path within $U$. In the finite-dimensional case, more restrictive conditions are required. We also study the Fr\'echet smooth case for mappings from $\mathbb R^n$ to a separable infinite-dimensional Banach space and the G\^ateaux smooth case for mappings defined on a separable infinite-dimensional Banach space and with values in a separable Banach space.

It is shown, using the Borwein--Preiss variational principle that for every continuous convex function $f$ on a weakly compactly generated space $X$, every $x_0\in X$ and every weakly compact convex symmetric set $K$ such that $\cspan K=X$, there is a point of G\^ateaux differentiability of $f$ in $x_0+K$. This extends a Klee's result for separable spaces.

Let $\M$ be a type II$_1$ von Neumann algebra, $\tau$ a trace in $\M$, and $\l2$ the GNS Hilbert space of $\tau$. We regard the unitary group $U_\M$ as a subset of $\l2$ and characterize the shortest smooth curves joining two fixed unitaries in the $L^2$ metric. As a consequence of this we obtain that $U_\M$, though a complete (metric) topological group, is not an embedded riemannian submanifold of $\l2$

The index theory considered in this paper, a generalisation of the classical Fredholm index theory, is obtained in terms of a non-finite trace on a unital $C^\ast$-algebra. We relate it to the index theory of M.~Breuer, which is developed in a von~Neumann algebra setting, by means of a representation theorem. We show how our new index theory can be used to obtain an index theorem for Toeplitz operators on the compact group $\mathbf{U}(2)$, where the classical index theory does not give any interesting result.

This paper studies the integration of inclusion of subdifferentials. Under various verifiable conditions, we obtain that if two proper lower semicontinuous functions $f$ and $g$ have the subdifferential of $f$ included in the $\gamma$-enlargement of the subdifferential of $g$, then the difference of those functions is $ \gamma$-Lipschitz over their effective domain.

In this paper we study Hankel transforms and Hankel convolution operators on spaces of entire functions of finite order and their duals.