1. Topological Vector Spaces 1 1.1. The Krein-Milman theorem 7 2. Banach Algebras 11 2.1. Commutative Banach algebras 14 2.2. ∗–Algebras (over complexes) 17 2.3. Exercises 20 3. The Spectral Theorem 21 3.1. Problems on the Spectral Theorem (Multiplication Operator Form) 26 3.2. Integration with respect to a Projection Valued Measure 27 3.3. The Functional Calculus 34 4. Unbounded Operators 37 4...

The paper deals with affine selections of affine (both convex and concave) multifunctions acting between finite-dimensional real normed spaces. It is proved that each affine multifunction with compact values possesses an exhaustive family of affine selections and, consequently, can be represented by its affine selections. Moreover, a convex multifunction with compact values possesses an exhaust...

1. Let F be a partially ordered vector space with an order unit e. It is well known that the class 5DÎ of maximal ideals of V is in one-one correspondence with the class K of normalized positive linear functionals, in the sense that to each ME^SR corresponds a positive linear functional <¡>m with M as its null-space and with M(e) = 1. A maximal ideal MG 90? is said to be extreme if <pM is an...

Motivated by typical questions from computational geometry (visibility and art gallery problems) and combinatorial geometry (illumination problems) we present an analogue of the Krein-Milman theorem for the class of star-shaped sets. If S ⊆ R is compact and star-shaped, we consider a fixed, nonempty, compact, and convex subset K of the convex kernel K0 = ck(S) of S, for instance K = K0 itself. ...