The polar decomposition in Banach spaces (Q421950)

This paper starts with the construction of a pair of separable Hilbert spaces \(KS^{2}[\mathbb{R}^{n}]\) and \(GS^{2}[\mathbb{R}^{n}],\) with the property that for each classical Banach space \(\mathcal{B}\) there are continuous dense embeddings \(GS^{2}[\mathbb{R}^{n}]\hookrightarrow\mathcal{B}\hookrightarrow KS^{2}[\mathbb{R}^{n}]\). Using this, the authors show the existence of the adjoint in the case of operators of Baire class 1 (that is, of strong limits of continuous linear operators). This makes possible the extension of Poincaré inequality to the framework of Banach spaces. Also, the paper contains an extension of the Stone-von Neumann spectral theorem and a construction of Schatten classes of operators on a Banach space.