Direct sums of Cartan factors
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Direct sums of Cartan factors
zbMATH Open document ID: 0807.46076
author: Carlo Petronio
published in: Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova
publication date: 1993-08-30T00:00:00Z
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review text: In [Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei, Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Nat. Rend., IX. Ser. 1, No. 3, 203-213 (1990; Zbl 0747.46040)] we envisaged the orbit of the origin in the unit ball of a direct sum of two complex Banach spaces (endowed with a suitable norm), with respect to the group of holomorphic automorphisms, and we obtained some general results. As a special case we considered the class of \(p\)-norms, and we proved that the most interesting case is when \(p\) equals 2. For \(p=2\) we succeeded in giving some information about the orbit of the origin when one of the spaces is either a Hilbert space or a commutative \(C^*\)-algebra with identity. In this paper we consider the case when one of the spaces is a Cartan factor. The reason for considering Cartan factors is that, as we proved in [loc. cit.], only spaces in which the orbit of the origin in the unit ball is non-trivial can give rise to a direct sum in which such an orbit is non-trivial: and the unit ball of a Cartan factor is homogeneous. Our main result can be expressed in the following way: if \(F\) is a Cartan factor of type I, II, III or IV and \(F\) is not isometric to a Hilbert space, then, given a non-trivial complex Banach space \(G\), no point in the orbit of the origin in the unit ball of the 2-sum of \(G\) and \(F\) can have non-zero \(F\)-coordinate. In the last section we prove some results concerning duality theory for Cartan factors.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46L35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46G20
zbMATH DE Number: 227153
zbMATH Keywords: orbit
zbMATH Keywords: holomorphic automorphisms
zbMATH Keywords: commutative \(C^*\)-algebra with identity
zbMATH Keywords: duality theory for Cartan factors
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