Let A be a commutative Banach algebra with identity of norm 1, X a Banach A-module and G a locally compact abeian group with Haar measure. Then the multipliers from an A -valued function algebra into an X-valued function space is studied. We characterize the multiplier spaces as the following isometrically isomorphic relations under some appropriate conditions:

Let G be a locally compact abeian group, (μρ) a net of bounded Radon measures on G. In this paper we consider conditions under which (μρ) is saturated in Lp (G) and apply these results to the Fejér and Picard approximation processes.

We describe on the Heisenberg group Hn a family of spaces M(h, X) of functions which play a role analogous to the trigonometric polynomials in Tn or the functions of exponential type in Rn. In particular we prove that for the space M(h, X), Jackson's theorem holds in the classical form while Bernstein's inequality hold in a modified form. We end of the paper with a characterization of the functions of the Lipschitz space by the behavior of their best approximations by functions in the space M(h, X).

The special Denjoy-Bochner integral (the D*B-integral) which are generalisations of Lebesgue-Bochner integral are discussed in [7, 6, 5]. Just as the concept of numerical almost periodicity was extended by Burkill [3] to numerically valued D*- or D-integrable function, we extend the concept of almost periodicity for Banach valued function to Banach valued D*B-integrable function. For this purpose we introduce as in [3] a distance in the space of all D*B-integrable functions with respect to which the D*B-almost periodicity is defined. It is shown that the D*B-almost periodicity shares many of the known properties of the almost periodic Banach valued function [1, 4].

Random Fourier series are studied for a class of compact abelian hypergroups. The randomizing factors are assumed to be independent and uniformly subgaussian. In the presence of a natural teachnical hypothesis, an entropy condition of Dudley is shown to be sufficient for almost sure continuity. The classical results on almost sure membership in Lp, where p < ∞, are generalized to this setting. As an application, it is shown that a simple condition on the dual object implies that the de Leeuw-Kahane-Katznelson phenomenon occurs. Another application is the analogue of a classical sufficient condition for almost sure continuity. Examples illustrating the general theory are given for the hypergroup of conjugacy classes of SU(2) and for a class of compact countable hypergroups.

Let G be a compact abelian group with dual Ĝ and let K be a Banach L1 (G)-module. We introduce the notion of character convolution transformation of K which reduces to ordinary Fourier or Fourier-Stieltjes transformation when K is one of the spaces Lp(G), M(G). We show that the question of what maps Ĝ → K extend to multipliers of K is a question of asking for descriptions of the character convolution transforms. In this setting some results of Helson-Edward and Schoenberg-Eberlein find generalizations, as do some classical results, including the inversion formula and the Parseval relation. We then apply these results to transformation groups, obtaining a variant of a theorem of Bochner and an extension of a theorem of Ryan.

Let G denote any locally compact abelian group with the dual group Γ. We construct a new kind of subalgebra L1(G) ⊗ΓS of L1(G) from given Banach ideal S of L1(G). We show that L1(G) ⊗гS is the larger amoung all strongly character invariant homogeneous Banach algebras in S. when S contains a strongly character invariant Segal algebra on G, it is show that L1(G) ⊗гS is also the largest among all strongly character invariant Segal algebras in S. We give applications to characterizations of two kinds of subalgebras of L1(G)-strongly character invariant Segal algebras on G and Banach ideal in L1(G) which contain a strongly character invariant Segal algebra on G.

This paper shows that the idempotent generalized characters associated with a Raikov System generated by a K2 set in is contained in the closure of the characters D2 in ΔM(D2).

Let G be a compact, simple, simply connected Lie group. The Lp-norm of a central trigonometric polynomial reduces naturally to a weighted Lp-norm of a trigonometric polynomial on a maximal torus T. The weight is | Δ |2-p, where Δ is the usual Weyl function. If p ≥ 2, we prove that | Δ |2-p satisfies Muckenhoupt's Ap condition if and only if the Lp-norms of the irreducible characters of G are uniformly bounded.

In this paper we study commutative topological semigroups S admitting an absolutely continuous measure. When S is cancellative we show that S admits a weaker topology J with respect to which (S, J) is embeddable as a subsemigroup with non-empty interior in some locally compact topological group. As a consequence, we deduce certain results related to the existence of invariant measures on S and for a large class of locally compact topological semigroups S, we associate S with some useful topological subsemigroup of a locally compact group.

Let G be LCA group with an algebraically ordered dual Ĝ. Suppose also that the semigroup P of positive elements in Ĝ is not dense in Ĝ. Subspaces (G) (1 < s < ∞) are defined analogous to the Hardy spaces on the circle group, and the question whether every multiplier from into can be extended to a multiplier from L3(G) into Lq(G) is investigated. If we suppose that s ≠ ∞, the it is shown that such an extension is possible if and only if (s, q) ∈ (1, ∞) × [1, ∞] ∪ {(1, ∞)}. (the negative result for (1, 1) was obtained in a previous paper.)

Let St = exp{−tH}, Tt = exp{−tK}, be C0-semigroups on a Banach space . For appropriate f one can define subordinate semigroups Sft = exp{−tf(H)}, Ttf = exp{−tf(K)}, on and examine order properties of the pairs S, T, and Sf, Tf. If , = Lp(X;dv) we define St≽ Tt ≽ 0 if St − Tt and Tt map non-negative functions into non-negative functions. Then for p fixed in the range 1 > p > ∞ we characterize the functions for which St ≽ Tt ≽ 0 implies Sft ≽ Tft ≽ 0 for each Lp(X;dv) and the converse is true for all Lp(X;dv). Further we give irreducibility criteria for the strict ordering of holomorphic semigroups. This extends earlier results for L2-spaces.

Let G be a locally compact group G (which may be non-abelian) and Ap(G) the p-Fourier algebra of Herz (1971). This paper is concerned with the Fourier algebra Al, p(G) = Ap(G) ∩ L1(G) and various relations that exist between Al, p(G), Ap(G) and G.

In 1953 P. P. Korovkin proved that if (Tn) is a sequence of positive linear operators defined on the space C of continuous real 2π-periodic functions and limn→rTnf = f uniformly for f = 1, cos and sin. then limn→rTnf = f uniformly for all f∈C. We extend this result to spaces of continuous functions defined on a locally compact abelian group G, with the test family {1, cos, sin} replaced by a set of generators of the character group of G.

The main results of this article are (I) Let B be a homogeneous Banach algebra, A a closed subalgebra of B, and I the largest closed ideal of B contained in A. We assert that for some closed subalgebra J of B. Furthermore, under suitable conditions, we show that A is an R-subalgebra if and only if J is an R-subalgebra. A number of concrete closed subalgebras of a homogeneous Banach algebra therefore are R-subalgebras. For the definition of P(A) and that of an R-subalgebra, see the introduction in Section 1. (II) We give sufficient and necessary conditions for a closed subalgebra of Lp(G), 1 ≦ p ≦ ∞, to be an R-subalgebra.

In this paper, we define the function space H1P(G) on a LCA group G with the algebraically ordered dual, and construct a multiplier on H1P(G) similar to the one given by Gaudry (1968).

The object is to unify and complement some recent theorems of Hewitt and Ritter on the integrability of Fourier transforms, but the underlying theme is the ancient one that Plancherel's theorem is the “only” integrability constraint on Fourier transforms. The distinguishing feature of the results is that we restrict attention to positive measures (or functions) which satisfy an ergodic condition and whose transforms are positive. (In fact we employ sums of discrete random variables, a technique which seems to have been largely ignored in context.) The general setting is that of locally compact abelian groups but we are chiefly interested in the line or the circle, and it appears that the theorems are new for these classical groups.