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Extension of contractive projections

Functional Analysis 2025-09-16 v4

Abstract

Through the establishment of several extension theorems, we provide explicit expressions for all contractive projections and 1-complemented subspaces in the Hardy space Hp(T)H^p(\mathbb{T}) for 1p<1\leq p<\infty, p2p\neq 2. Our characterization leads to two corollaries: first, all nontrivial 1-complemented subspaces of Hp(T)H^p(\mathbb{T}) are isometric to Hp(T)H^p(\mathbb{T}); second, all contractive projections on Hp(T)H^p(\mathbb{T}) are restrictions of contractive projections on Lp(T)L^p(\mathbb{T}) that leave Hp(T)H^p(\mathbb{T}) invariant. The first corollary provides examples of prime Banach spaces \emph{in the isometric sense}, while the second answers a question posed by P. Wojtaszczyk in 2003.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2412.14808,
  title  = {Extension of contractive projections},
  author = {Xiangdi Fu and Kunyu Guo and Dilong Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14808},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

We simplify the language and the proof of Lemma 3.2

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