Isometries on spaces of vector valued Lipschitz functions (Q2377404)

The authors make substantial progress in understanding the structure of surjective isometries of the space of Lipschitz functions from \([0,1]\), valued in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space \(H\), under some additional hypothesis on the isometry. It is expected that the embedding technique developed here will help in solving the general problem of a Banach-Stone type theorem for these spaces. Let \(\mathrm{Id} \otimes v\) denote the function \(\mathrm{Id} \otimes v (x) = x\cdot v\), the authors assume that the subspace spanned by such functions is invariant under \(T\), and also that there is a unitary operator \(U\) such that \(T(f)(0) = U(f(0))\) for all Lipschitz functions \(f\). In the case of a real Hilbert space, if for some unit vectors \(u\), \(v\), \(T(\mathrm{Id}^2 \otimes v) = \mathrm{Id}^2 \otimes u\), they show that there is real isometry \(V\) of the Hilbert space such that \(Tf(x) = U(f(0)) + V(f(x)-f(0))\).