Schatten's theorems on functionally defined Schur algebras (Q2576016)

Let \(\mathcal B\) be a unital commutative \(C^*\)-algebra with state space \(s(\mathcal B)\). Let \(p,q,r\geq 1\) be real numbers. Denote \({\mathcal S}^r(\mathcal B)\) the set of all infinite matrices \(A=(a_{jk})\) with entries in \(\mathcal B\) for which the infinite matrix \((\varphi(| a_{jk}| ^r))\) of numbers (which we denote by \(\varphi( A^{[r]})\)) defines a bounded linear operator from the sequence space \(\ell^p\) to \(\ell^q\) for every state \(\varphi\in s(\mathcal B)\). It is proved that this set is a Banach algebra under the entrywise operations and the norm \(\| A\| =\sup\{ \| \varphi( A^{[r]})\| ^{1/r} : \varphi \in s(\mathcal B)\}\) (here the latter sign of norm refers to the norm of operators from \(\ell^p\) to \(\ell^q\)). The main results of the paper are analogues of Schatten's well-known theorems describing the dual spaces of compact, trace-class and bounded Hilbert space operators in the setting of the algebra \({\mathcal S}^r(\mathcal B)\).