Mapping degree in Banach spaces and spectral theory

Local Theory of Banach Spaces ∗

Week 1 (9/7/2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Basic Results and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Existence of Haar Measure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Descriptive Classification Theory and Separable Banach Spaces

Three Notions of Classification Consider your favorite class ofmathematical structures, be it groups, modules, measure-preserving transformations, C-algebras, Lie groups, smooth manifolds, or something completely different. With some probability, the classification problem for these objects, that is, the problem of determining the structures up to some relevant notion of isomorphism, is, or has...

Math 206: Banach Algebra and Spectral Theory

The Topological Degree for Noncompact Nonlinear Mappings in Banach Spaces

Let X and Y be Banach spaces, G an open subset of X. If we denote the closure of G by cl(G), let ƒ be a mapping of cl(G) into Y. For X~ Y and ƒ a compact mapping, Leray and Schauder [9] gave a definition of topological degree for mappings of the form ƒ —ƒ on the open set G over a point a of X whenever (I—f)"^) is a compact subset of G. The Leray-Schauder degree for compact displacements is the ...

The antipodal mapping theorem and difference equations in Banach spaces †

We employ the Borsuk-Krasnoselskii antipodal theorem to prove a new fixed point theorem in ordered Banach spaces. Then, the applicability of the result is shown by presenting sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions to initial value problems for first-order difference equations in Banach spaces. To prove that result we shall employ set valued analysis techniques.