Linking in Hilbert space
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Abstract:
We present the most general definition of the linking of sets in a Hilbert space and, drawing on the theory given in earlier papers by Schechter and Tintarev, give a necessary and sufficient geometric condition for linking when one set is compact.References
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Additional Information
- Martin Schechter
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3875
- Email: mschecht@math.uci.edu
- Kyril Tintarev
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 480, 751 06 Uppsala, Sweden
- MR Author ID: 172775
- ORCID: 0000-0002-7484-2900
- Email: kyril.tintarev@math.uu.se
- Received by editor(s): August 7, 2004
- Published electronically: August 25, 2005
- Additional Notes: The first author was supported in part by an NSF grant
The research was done while the second author was visiting UC Irvine; supported in part by a grant from the Swedish Research Council. - Communicated by: Jonathan M. Borwein
- © Copyright 2005
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 403-410
- MSC (2000): Primary 35J65, 58E05, 49J27
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-05-08217-1
- MathSciNet review: 2176008