M-Ideals in Banach Spaces and Banach Algebras [electronic resource] / by Peter Harmand, Dirk Werner, Wend Werner.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; 1547Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1993Description: VIII, 396 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783540477532
- 515 23
- QA299.6-433
Basic theory of M-ideals -- Geometric properties of M-ideals -- Banach spaces which are M-ideals in their biduals -- Banach spaces which are L-summands in their biduals -- M-ideals in Banach algebras -- M-ideals in spaces of bounded operators.
This book provides a comprehensive exposition of M-ideal theory, a branch ofgeometric functional analysis which deals with certain subspaces of Banach spaces arising naturally in many contexts. Starting from the basic definitions the authors discuss a number of examples of M-ideals (e.g. the closed two-sided ideals of C*-algebras) and develop their general theory. Besides, applications to problems from a variety of areas including approximation theory, harmonic analysis, C*-algebra theory and Banach space geometry are presented. The book is mainly intended as a reference volume for researchers working in one of these fields, but it also addresses students at the graduate or postgraduate level. Each of its six chapters is accompanied by a Notes-and-Remarks section which explores further ramifications of the subject and gives detailed references to the literature. An extensive bibliography is included.
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