Symmetric spaces in the sense of E. Cartan supply major examples in Riemannian geometry. The study of their structure is connected closely to the theory of Lie groups. On these spaces, global analysis, particularly integration theory and theory of partial differential operators, arises in a canonical fashion by the requirement of geometric invariance. On R these two subjects are related to one ...

We extend the results of Mary Embry [9] on majorisation and range inclusion of bounded linear operators on Banach spaces to the case when one of the two operators is a convex process. An application in controllability is given.

We study weakly continuously Urysohn spaces, which were introduced in [Z]. We show that every weakly continuously Urysohn w∆-space has a base of countable order, that separable weakly continuously Urysohn spaces are submetrizable, hence continuously Urysohn, that monontonically normal weakly continuously Urysohn spaces are hereditarily paracompact, and that no linear extension of any uncountabl...

Following results of Bourgain and Gorelik we show that the spaces lp, 1 < p < ∞, as well as some related spaces have the following uniqueness property: If X is a Banach space uniformly homeomorphic to one of these spaces then it is linearly isomorphic to the same space. We also prove that if a C(K) space is uniformly homeomorphic to c0, then it is isomorphic to c0. We show also that there are B...

This paper establishes the equality of the observation spaces defined by means of piecewise constant controls with those defined in terms of differentiable controls. This research was supported in part by US Air Force Grant AFOSR-88-0235. keywords: Observation space, shuffle product, input-output system, generating series.

This paper presents an approach for optimal path planning on implicitly-defined configuration spaces such as those arising, for instance, when manipulating an object with two arms or with a multifingered hand. In this kind of situations, the kinematic and contact constraints induce configuration spaces that are manifolds embedded in higher dimensional ambient spaces. Existing sampling-based app...

This chapter focuses on the World Wide Web (Web) as a provider of shared information landscapes. It reviews our work to design 3D spaces for information navigation and social interaction, and suggests an approach to such design based on an experiential theory of meaning. The increasing use of virtual 3D space in information environments is noted, and Personal Spaces are contrasted with Public P...