Extreme points and isometries on vector-valued Lipschitz spaces (Q542864)

Let \(E\) be a Banach space and let \((X,d)\) be a compact metric space. The space \(\text{Lip}(X, E)\) of all Lipschitz functions from \(X\) to \(E\) is a Banach space under the norm defined by \(\|F\|=\max\{L(F), \|F\|_\infty\}\), where \(\|F\|_\infty=\sup\{|F(x)|:x\in X\}\) and \(L(F)\) is the usual Lipschitz seminorm of \(F\). Investigations of surjective isometries on spaces of Lipschitz functions in the scalar-valued case go back to de Leeuw in 1961 and include results of many authors. Recently, \textit{A. Jimenez-Vargas} and \textit{M. Villegas-Vallecillos} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 137, No. 4, 1381--1388 (2009; Zbl 1171.46006)] considered the vector-valued case, showing that any surjective linear isometry from \(\text{Lip}(X,E)\) onto \(\text{Lip}(Y,E)\) is a weighted composition operator of the form \(TF(y)=V(y)F(\phi(y))\), where \(\phi\) is a Lipschitz homeomorphism from \(Y\) to \(X\), and \(y\mapsto V(y)\) is a Lipschitz map from \(Y\) into the space of isometries on \(E\). To obtain this result, it was assumed that \(E\) is strictly convex. In the paper under review, the requirement of strict convexity is removed. Of course, some other assumptions must be made. Two main cases are considered. In Section 2, a Banach space \(E\) is quasi sub-reflexive and an operator \(T\) has property \(Q\). These notions are defined in the paper. In Section 3, the metric spaces \(X\) and \(Y\) are assumed to be compact and pathwise connected and \(E\) is a smooth, reflexive Banach space. The authors use extreme point methods to describe the isometries.