Past Functional Analysis Seminar

I will give an overview of the localization technique: a powerful dimension-reduction tool for proving geometric and functional inequalities.  Having its roots in a  pioneering work of Payne-Weinberger in the 60ies about sharp Poincare’-Wirtinger inequality on Convex Bodies in Rn, recently such a technique found new applications for a range of sharp geometric and functional inequalities in spaces with Ricci curvature bounded below.

The Schur product is the commutative operation of entrywise

multiplication of two (possibly infinite) matrices. If we fix a matrix

A and require that the Schur product of A with the matrix of any

bounded operator is again the matrix of a bounded operator, then A is

said to be a Schur multiplier; Schur multiplication by A then turns

out to be a completely bounded map. The Schur multipliers were

characterised by Grothendieck in the 1950s. In a 2006 paper, Kissin

and Shulman study a noncommutative generalisation which they call

"operator multipliers", in which the theory of operator spaces plays

an important role. We will present joint work with Katja Juschenko,

Ivan Todorov and Ludmilla Turowska in which we determine the operator

multipliers which are completely compact (that is, they satisfy a

strengthening of the usual notion of compactness which is appropriate

for completely bounded maps).