Functional Analysis: Surveys and Recent Results

This volume contains 22 articles on topics of current interest in functional analysis, operator theory and related areas. Some of the papers have connections with complex function theory in one and several variables, probability theory and mathematical physics.Surveys of some areas of recent progress in functional analysis are given and related new results are presented. The topics covered in this volume supplement the discussion of modern functional analysis in the previous Proceedings volumes. Together with the previous volumes, the reader obtains a good impression of many aspects of present-day functional analysis and its applications. Parts of this volume can be used profitably in advanced seminars and courses in functional analysis.

Functional Analysis: Surveys and Recent Results II

This Proceedings Volume contains 32 articles on various interesting areas ofpresent-day functional analysis and its applications: Banach spaces andtheir geometry, operator ideals, Banach and operator algebras, operator andspectral theory, Frechet spaces and algebras, function and sequence spaces.The authors have taken much care with their articles and many papers presentimportant results and methods in active fields of research. Several surveytype articles (at the beginning and the end of the book) will be very usefulfor mathematicians who want to learn "what is going on" in some particularfield of research.

The text contains for the first time in book form the state of the art of homological methods in functional analysis like characterizations of the vanishing of the derived projective limit functor or the functors Ext1 (E, F) for Fréchet and more general spaces. The researcher in real and complex analysis finds powerful tools to solve surjectivity problems e.g. on spaces of distributions or to characterize the existence of solution operators. The requirements from homological algebra are minimized: all one needs is summarized on a few pages. The answers to several questions of V.P. Palamodov who invented homological methods in analysis also show the limits of the program.

These proceedings from the Symposium on Functional Analysis explore advances in the usually separate areas of semigroups of operators and evolution equations, geometry of Banach spaces and operator ideals, and Frechet spaces with applications in partial differential equations.

This volume includes a collection of research articles inFunctional Analysis, celebrating the occasion of Manuel Valdivia'ssixtieth birthday. The papers included in the volume are basedon the main lectures presented during the internationalfunctional analysis meeting held in Peñíscola(Valencia, Spain) in October 1990.During his career, Valdiviahas made contributions to a wide variety of areas of FunctionalAnalysis and his work has had a profound impact. A thoroughappreciation of Valdivia's work is presented in J.Horváth's article. In honor of Valdivia's achievements, this volume presents more than twenty-five papers on topics related to his research(Banach spaces, operator ideals, tensor products, Fréchet,(DF) and (LF) spaces, distribution theory, infinite holomorphyetc.). While the majority of papers are research articles, survey articles are also included. The book covers a broad spectrum of interests in today's Functional Analysis and presents new results by leading specialists in the field.