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A variant of Tingley's problem for positive unit spheres of continuous functions that vanish at infinity

Functional Analysis 2026-01-27 v1

Abstract

Let S(C0(X))+S(C_0(X))^+ and S(C0(Y))+S(C_0(Y))^+ denote the positive parts of the unit spheres of C0(X)C_0(X) and C0(Y)C_0(Y), where XX and YY are locally compact Hausdorff spaces. We prove that every surjective isometry from S(C0(X))+S(C_0(X))^+ onto S(C0(Y))+S(C_0(Y))^+ is a composition operator induced by a homeomorphism between XX and YY . As a consequence, such a map extends to a surjective reallinear isometry from C0(X)C_0(X) onto C0(Y)C_0(Y). We also characterize surjective phase-isometries on the positive unit sphere.

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@article{arxiv.2601.17704,
  title  = {A variant of Tingley's problem for positive unit spheres of continuous functions that vanish at infinity},
  author = {Kazuki Ezumi and Min-Ruei Lin and Takeshi Miura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.17704},
  year   = {2026}
}

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