Stable norms --from theory to applications and back (Q2484394)

This survey paper gives a brief review on certain aspects of stability of norms and subnorms acting on algebras over \({\mathbb C}\) or~\({\mathbb R}\). Several results regarding norm stability, including conditions under which norms on certain algebras are stable, are considered. The second part of the paper is devoted to applications, where the notion of norm stability is employed to obtain criteria for the convergence of a well-known family of finite-difference schemes for the initial-value problem associated with a certain parabolic system. The third and last part of the paper deals with the question of stability for subnorms acting on subsets of power-associative algebras that are closed under scalar multiplication and under raising to powers.