Isometric Shift Operators on C(X)

Farid, F. O. ; Varadarajan, K.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 46 (1994) no. 3, pp. 532-542

Résumé

Recently A. Gutek, D. Hart, J. Jamison and M. Rajagopalan have obtained many significiant results concerning shift operators on Banach spaces. Using a result of Holsztynski they classify isometric shift operators on C(X) for any compact Hausdorff space X into two (not necessarily disjoint) classes. If there exists an isometric shift operator T: C(X) → C(X) of type II, they show that X is necessarily separable. In case T is of type I, they exhibit a paticular infinite countable set of isolated points in X. Under the additional assumption that the linear functional Γ carrying f ∊ C(X) to Tf(p) ∊ is identically zero, they show that D is dense in X. They raise the question whether D will still be dense in X even when Γ ≠ 0. In this paper we give a negative answer to this question. In fact, given any integer l ≥ 1, we construct an example of an isometric shift operator T: C(X) —> C(X) of type I with X \ having exactly / elements, where is the closure of D in X.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1994-028-1

Mots-clés : 47B38, 47A65

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