Realcompactness and spaces of vector-valued functions

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Abstract: It is shown that the existence of a biseparating map between a large class of spaces of vector-valued continuous functions A(X,E) and A(Y,F) implies that some compactifications of X and Y are homeomorphic. In some cases, conditions are given to warrant the existence of a homeomorphism between the realcompactifications of X and Y; in particular we find remarkable differences with respect to the scalar context: namely, if E and F are infinite-dimensional and T is a biseparating map between the space of E-valued bounded continuous functions on X and that of F-valued bounded continuous functions on Y, then the realcompactifications of X and Y are homeomorphic.


This paper is dedicated to describe the linear biseparating maps defined between spaces of vector-valued continuous functions on realcompact spaces. There are thereby generalized to the vector-valued setting several results previously proved by the author, with \textit{E. Beckenstein} and \textit{L. Narici} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 192, No. 1, 258-265 (1995; Zbl 0828.47024)] and with \textit{J. J. Font} [Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 43, No. 1, 139-147 (2000; Zbl 0945.46032)], for biseparating maps defined between spaces of scalar-valued functions. Assume that \(X\) is a completely regular Hausdorff space and \(A\) is subring of \(C(X)\) which separates each point of \(X\) from each point of \(\beta X\). In \(\beta X\) the author defines the equivalence relation \(\sim\), defined as \(x\sim y\) whenever\(f^{\beta X}(x)=f^{\beta X}(y)\) for every \(f\in A\). In this way, the quotient space \(\gamma X:=\beta X/\sim\) is obtained. The space \(\gamma X\) is a compactification of \(X\) (the Samuelcompactification of \(X\) associated by the uniformity generated by \(A\)), and every \(f\in A\) can be continuously extended to a map from \(\gamma X\) into \(\mathbb{K}\cup \{ \infty \}\). The symbolism \(C(X,E)\) (resp. \(C^{\ast}(X,E)\)) denotes the space of continuous (resp. and bounded) functions on \(X\) taking values in \(E\). Suppose that \(A(X,E)\subset C(X,E)\) is an \(A\)-module, where \(A\) is a subring of \(X\) which separates each point of \(X\) from each point of \(\beta X\). The author says that \(A(X,E)\) is compatible with \(A\) if, there exists \(f\in A(X,E)\) with \(f(x)\not= 0\), and if, given any points \(x,y\in \beta X\) with \(x\sim y\), we have \(\|f\|^{\beta X}(x)=|f\|^{\beta X}(y)\) for every \(f\in A(X,E)\). A subring \(A\subset C(X)\) is said to be strongly regular if given \(x_{0}\in \gamma X\) and a nonempty closed subset \(K\) of \(\gamma X\) which does not contain \(x_{0}\), there exists \(f\in A\) such that \(f^{\gamma X}\equiv 1\) on a neigbourhood of \(x_{0}\) and \(f^{\gamma X}(K)\equiv 0\). A map \(T:A(X,E)\rightarrow A(Y,F)\) is said to be separating if it is additive and \(\|(Tf)(y)\|\cdot \|(Tg)(y)\|=0\) for all \(y\in Y\) whenever \(f,g\in A(X,E)\) satisfy \(\|f(x)\|\cdot \|g(x)\|=0\) for all \(x\in X\). Moreover, \(T\) is said to be biseparating if it is bijective and both \(T\) and \(T^{-1}\) are separating. Among others, the following main results are obtained: (1) Suppose that \(A(X,E)\subset C(X,E)\) and \(A(Y,F)\subset C(Y,F)\) are an \(A\)-module and a \(B\)-module compatible with \(A\) and \(B\), respectively, where \(A\subset C(X)\) and \(B\subset C(Y)\) are strongly regular rings. Also, in case when \(\gamma X \not= \beta X\) and \(\gamma Y \not= \beta Y\), it is assumed that for every \(x\in \beta X\) and \(y\in \beta Y\), there exists \(f\in A(X,E)\) and \(g\in A(Y,F)\) satisfying \(\|f\|^{\beta X}(x)\not= 0\) and\(\|g\|^{\beta Y}(y)\not= 0\). If \(T:A(X,E)\rightarrow A(Y,F)\) is a biseparating map, then \(\gamma X\) and \(\gamma Y\) are homeomorphic.(2) If \(T:C^{\ast}(X,E)\rightarrow C^{\ast}(Y,F)\) is biseparating, then \(\upsilon X\) and \(\upsilon Y\) are homeomorphic.











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