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Phase-isometries on the unit sphere of $C(K)$

Functional Analysis 2020-11-03 v2

Abstract

We say that a map T:SXSYT: S_X\rightarrow S_Y between the unit spheres of two real normed-spaces XX and YY is a phase-isometry if it satisfies \begin{eqnarray*} \{\|T(x)+T(y)\|, \|T(x)-T(y)\|\}=\{\|x+y\|, \|x-y\|\} \end{eqnarray*} for all x,ySXx,y\in S_X. In the present paper, we show that there is a phase function ε:SX{1,1}\varepsilon:S_X\rightarrow \{-1,1\} such that εT\varepsilon \cdot T is an isometry which can be extended a linear isometry on the whole space XX whenever TT is surjective, X=C(K)X=C(K) (KK is a compact Hausdorff space) and YY is an arbitrary Banach space. Additionally, if TT is a phase-isometry between the unit spheres of C(K)C(K) and C(Ω)C(\Omega), where KK and Ω\Omega are compact Hausdorff spaces, we prove that there is a homeomorphism φ:ΩK\varphi: \Omega\rightarrow K such that T(f){fφ,fφ}T(f)\in\{f\circ \varphi,-f\circ \varphi\} for all fSC(K)f\in S_{C(K)}. This also can be seen as a Banach-Stone type representation for phase-isometries in C(K)C(K) spaces.

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@article{arxiv.2008.09282,
  title  = {Phase-isometries on the unit sphere of $C(K)$},
  author = {Dongni Tan and Yueli Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.09282},
  year   = {2020}
}

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