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Smoothness and norm attainment of bounded bilinear operators between Banach spaces

Functional Analysis 2019-07-04 v1

Abstract

We study the smoothness and the norm attainment of bounded bilinear operators between Banach spaces, using the concepts of Birkhoff-James orthogonality and semi-inner-products. In the finite-dimensional case, we characterize Birkhoff-James orthogonality of bilinear operators in terms of the norm attainment set. This yields a nice characterization of smoothness of bilinear operators between Banach spaces, in the finite-dimensional case. Without any restriction on the dimension of the space, we obtain a complete characterization of the norm attainment set of a bounded bilinear operator using semi-inner-products, which is particularly useful when the concerned Banach spaces are smooth.

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@article{arxiv.1907.01955,
  title  = {Smoothness and norm attainment of bounded bilinear operators between Banach spaces},
  author = {Debmalya Sain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.01955},
  year   = {2019}
}