Date of Submission

2-28-1981

Date of Award

2-28-1982

Institute Name (Publisher)

Indian Statistical Institute

Document Type

Doctoral Thesis

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Subject Name

Computer Science

Department

Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit (TSMU-Kolkata)

Supervisor

Roy, Ashoke Kumar (TSMU-Kolkata; ISI)

Abstract (Summary of the Work)

A complex Banach space X is said to be an L1-predual if X* is isometric to L1() for some non-negative measure Well known examples of L1-preduals include the space C(X) of complex-valued continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space and the abstract M-spaces of Kakutani. In [19], Grothendieck introduced a class of L'-preduals, now known as G-spaces, and conjectured that those are all the L'-preduals. In his 1964 memoir [35], Lândenstrauss settled this conjecture by exhibiting a wide class of Banach spaces, other than G-spaces, which are L1-preduals. He also gave several characterizations and interest- ing properties of L1-preduals in terme of intersection properties of balls and extensions of operators. Since that time, the theory of L1;-preduals has attracted wide attention. L1preduals are now sometimes called Lindenstraucs spaces.Let P:X -> X be a linear projection. We call an L-projection if I|x || = ||Px || + ||x - Px || for all x e X. The range of an I-projection is called an L-ideal, As a conse quence of the results of Alfsen-Effros [ and Hirsberg [22], one knows that a norm closed suospace J CA(K) (where A(K), the space of continuous complex-valued affine functions on a compact covex set K is equipped with the supremum norm) is an L-ideal iff J is the linear span of a split face of the image of K in A(K)*under the evaluation map. Through the combined efforts of Lindenstrauss 35), Semadeni [45), Hirsberg and Lazar [21],it is known that a Iindenstrauss space whose unit ball has an extreme point, can be realised isometrically as the space A(E for some compact Choquet simplex K. Now, Ellis [140 proved that a compict convex set is a Choquet simplex iff every closed face of it is split. In view of the one-to-one correspondence bet ween L-ideals and split faces mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph, all these results suggest the possibility of characterising general L1-preduals in terms of L-idealo in their dual opaces. Several such characterizations are obtained in the first three sections of the present thesis.

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