Stability of disjointness preserving mappings (Q2750896)

\(C(X)\) and \(C(Y)\) denote algebras of continuous functions on compact Hausdorff spaces \(X\) and \(Y\), respectively. A linear mapping \(\Phi\) between \(C(X)\) and \(C(Y)\) is called disjointness preserving if \(fg=0\) implies that \(\Phi(f) \Phi(g)=0\), where \(f,g\in C(X)\). Let \(\varepsilon\geq 0\), a linear mapping \(\Phi: C(X)\to C(Y)\) is called \(\varepsilon\)-disjointness preserving if \(\|\Phi (f)\Phi(g) \|\leq \varepsilon\|f\|\|g\|\) for any \(f,g \in C(X)\) satisfying \(fg=0\). The author shows that for every surjective \(\varepsilon\)-disjointness preserving linear mapping \(\Phi: C(X)\to C(Y)\) there exists a disjointness preserving linear mapping \(\Psi: C(X)\to C(Y)\) satisfying \(\|\Phi (f)-\Psi (f)\|\leq 20\sqrt \varepsilon\|f\|\) for all \(f\in C(X)\). When \(X=Y\), he proves the above result without surjective condition on \(\Phi\).