Past Functional Analysis Seminar

 I will present the general strategy for classifying separable, nuclear, purely infinite C*-algebras

This is part of a meeting of the North British Functional Analysis Seminar

In this talk I will present some new $L_p$-$L_q$-Fourier multiplier theorems which hold for operator-valued symbols under geometric restrictions on the underlying Banach spaces such as (Fourier) (co)type. I will show how the multiplier theorems can be applied to obtain new stability results for semigroups arising in evolution equations. This is based on joint work with Jan Rozendaal (ANU, Canberra).

This is part of a meeting of the North British Functional Analysis Seminar.

In this talk I will present an overview on generalized square functions in Banach spaces and some of their recent uses in “Analysis in Banach Spaces”. I will introduce the notions of $R$-boundedness and $\gamma$-radonifying operators and discuss their origins and some of their applications to harmonic analysis, functional calculus, control theory, and stochastic analysis.

This talk is associated with the NBFAS meeting.

We discuss the quantitative asymptotic behaviour of operator semigroups. Batty and Duyckaerts obtained upper and lower bounds on the rate of decay of a semigroup given bounds on the resolvent growth of the semigroup generator. They conjectured that in the Hilbert space setting and for the special case of polynomial resolvent growth it is possible to improve the upper bound so as to yield the exact rate of decay up to constants. This conjecture was proved to be correct by Borichev and Tomilov, and the conclusion was extended by Batty, Chill and Tomilov to certain cases in which the resolvent growth is not exactly polynomial but almost. In this talk we extend their result by showing that one can improve the upper bound under a significantly milder assumption on the resolvent growth. This result is optimal in a certain sense. We also discuss how this improved result can be used to obtain sharper estimates on the rate of energy decay for a wave equation subject to viscoelastic damping at the boundary. The talk is based on joint work with J. Rozendaal and R. Stahn.

This is part of a meeting of the North British Functional Aanlysis Seminar.  There will be a tea break (15:30-16:00)

In a first talk, I shall recall the basic definitions and properties of ${\mathcal{H}}^\infty}$ functional calculus. I shall show how a second order problem can be reduced to a first order system and how to construct potential operators.
In a second talk, we will see how to use potential operators for the specific problem of the Stokes operator with the so-called “natural” boundary conditions in non smooth domains.
Most parts which will be presented are taken from a joint work with Alan McIntosh (to be published soon in the journal "Revista Matematica Iberoamericana”)

The Neumann-Poincare (NP) operator (or the double layer potential) has classically been used as a tool to solve the Dirichlet and Neumann problems of a domain. It also serves as a prominent example in non-self adjoint spectral theory, due to its unexpected behaviour for domains with singularities. Recently, questions from materials science have revived interest in the spectral properties of the NP operator on domains with rough features. I aim to give an overview of recent developments, with particular focus on the NP operator's action on the energy space of the domain. The energy space framework ties together Poincare’s efforts to solve the Dirichlet problem with the operator-theoretic symmetrisation theory of Krein. I will also indicate recent work for domains in 3D with conical points. In this situation, we have been able to describe the spectrum both for boundary data in $L^2$ and for data in the energy space. In the former case, the essential spectrum consists of the union of countably many self-intersecting curves in the plane, and outside of this set the index may be computed as the winding number with respect to the essential spectrum. In the latter case the essential spectrum consists of a real interval.

I plan to present several results linking the numerical range of a Hilbert space operator to the circle structure of its spectrum. I'll try to explain how the numerical ranges approach helps to unify, extend or supplement several results where the circular structure of the spectrum is crucial, e.g. Arveson's theorem on almost-wandering vectors of unitary actions and Hamdan's recent result on supports of Rajchman measures. Moreover, I'll give several applications of the approach to new operator-theoretical constructions inverse in a sense to classical power dilations. If time permits, I'll also address the same or similar issues in a more general setting of operator tuples. This is joint work with V. M\" uller (Prague).
 

We consider a vector-valued function $f: \mathbb{R}_+ \to X$ which is locally of bounded variation and give a decay rate for $|A(t)|$ for increasing $t$ under certain conditions on the Laplace-Stieltjes transform $\widehat{dA}$ of $A$. For this, we use a Tauberian condition inspired by the work of Ingham and Karamata and a contour integration method invented by Newman. Our result is a generalisation of already known Tauberian theorems for bounded functions and is applicable to Dirichlet series. We will say something about the connection between the obtained decay rates and number theory.

Let $\mathrm{BMOA}_{\mathcal{NP}}$ denote the space of operator-valued analytic functions $\phi$ for which the Hankel operator $\Gamma_\phi$ is $H^2(\mathcal{H})$-bounded. Obtaining concrete characterizations of $\mathrm{BMOA}_{\mathcal{NP}}$ has proven to be notoriously hard. Let $D^\alpha$ denote differentiation of fractional order $\alpha$. Motivated originally by control theory, we characterize $H^2(\mathcal{H})$-boundedness of $D^\alpha\Gamma_\phi$, where $\alpha>0$, in terms of a natural anti-analytic Carleson embedding condition. We obtain three notable corollaries: The first is that  $\mathrm{BMOA}_{\mathcal{NP}}$ is not characterized by said embedding condition. The second is that when we add an adjoint embedding condition, we obtain a sufficient but not necessary condition for boundedness of $\Gamma_\phi$ . The third is that there exists a bounded analytic function for which the associated anti-analytic Carleson embedding is unbounded. As a consequence, boundedness of an analytic Carleson embedding does not imply that the anti-analytic ditto is bounded. This answers a question by Nazarov, Pisier, Treil, and Volberg.

Given a locally compact group G, the group C*-algebra is defined by taking the completion of $L^1(G)$ with respect to the C*-norm given by the irreducible unitary representations of G. However, if the group is not abelian, there is no known concrete description of its group C*-algebra. In my talk, I will briefly introduce the group C*-algebras and then give some examples arisen from solvable Lie groups

Our long term plan is to develop a unified approach to prove decomposition theorems in different structures. In our anti-dual pair setting, it would be useful to have a tool which is analogous to the so-called Schur complementation. To this aim, I will present a suitable generalization of the classical known Krein - von Neumann extension.

The classical Ingham-Karamata Tauberian theorem has many applications in different fields of mathematics, varying from number theory to $C_0$-semigroup theory and is considered to be one of the most important Tauberian theorems. We will discuss how to obtain remainder estimates in the theorem if one strengthens the assumptions on the Laplace transform. Moreover, we will give new (re­mainder) versions of this theorem under the more general one-sided Tauberian condition of $\rho(x) \ge −f(x)$ where $f$ is an arbitrary function satisfying some regularity assumptions. The talk is based on collaborative work with Jasson Vindas.

We present recent results on the connections existing between the facial
structure of the unit ball in a JB*-triple and the lattice of tripotents in its
bidual.

For reasonable domains $\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{d+
1}$, and given some boundary data $f\in C(\partial\Omega)$, we can solve the Dirichlet problem and find a harmonic function $u_{f}$ that agrees with $f$ on $\partial\Omega$. For $x_{0}\in \Omega$, the association $f\rightarrow u_{f}(x_{0})$. is a linear functional, so the Riesz Representation gives us a measure $\omega_{\Omega}^{x_{0}}$ on $\partial\Omega$ called the harmonic measure with pole at $x_{0}$. One can also think of the harmonic measure of a set $E\subseteq \partial\Omega$ as the probability that a Brownian motion of starting at $x_{0}$ will first hit the boundary in $E$. In this talk, we will survey some very recent results about the relationship between the measure theoretic behavior of harmonic measure and the geometry of the boundary of its domain. In particular, we will study how absolute continuity of harmonic measure with respect to $d$-dimensional Hausdorff measure implies rectifiability of the boundary and vice versa.
 

We present some recent results on the study of Schatten-von Neumann properties for
 operators on compact manifolds. We will explain the  point of view of kernels and full symbols. In both cases

one relies on a suitable Discrete Fourier analysis depending on the domain.

We will also discuss about operators on $L^p$ spaces by using the notion of nuclear operator in the sense of

Grothendieck and deduce Grothendieck-Lidskii trace formulas in terms of the matrix-symbol. We present examples

 for fractional powers of differential operators.  (Joint work with Michael Ruzhansky)

In this presentation we study the asymptotic behaviour of infinite systems of coupled linear ordinary differential equations. Each subsystem has identical dynamics that are only dependent on the states of its immediate neigbours. Examples of such systems in particular include the infinite "robot rendezvous problem" and the "platoon system" that are used to approximate the dynamics of large configurations of vehicles. In the presentation introduce novel methods for studying the spectral properties and stability of infinite systems of differential equations. The latter question is particularly interesting due to the fact that the systems in our class are known to lack uniform exponential stability. As our main results, we introduce general conditions for strong stability and derive rational rates of convergence for the solutions using recent results in the theory of nonuniform stability of strongly continuous semigroups.
 

We study the Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator on smooth Riemannian Spin manifolds with smooth compact boundary. Under lower bounds on injectivity radius and bounds on the Ricci curvature and its first derivatives, we demonstrate that this operator is stable in the Riesz topology under bounded perturbations of local boundary conditions. Our work is motivated by the spectral flow and its connection to the Riesz topology. These results are obtained by obtaining similar results for a more wider class of elliptic first- order differential operators on vector bundles satisfying certain general curvature conditions. At the heart of our proofs lie methods from Calderón-Zygmund harmonic analysis coupled with the modern operator theory point of view developed in proof of the Kato square root conjecture.
 

Let $X$ be a compact Hausdorff space and $C(X)$ be the space of continuous real-valued functions on $X$ endowed with the topology of uniform convergence. Assume we are given a finite number of closed subalgebras $A_1, \dots A_k$ of $C(X)$. Our talk is devoted to the following problem. What conditions imposed on $A_1, \dots, A_k$ are necessary and/or sufficient for the representation $C(X) = A_1 +\dots + A_k$? For the case $k = 1$, the history of this problem goes back to 1937 and 1948 papers by M. Stone. A version of the corresponding famous result, known as the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, states that a closed subalgebra $A \subset C(X)$, which contains a nonzero constant function, coincides with the whole space $C(X)$ if and only if $A$ separates points of $X$.