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Constructing ultraweakly continuous functionals on $\mathcal B(H)$
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by D. S. Bridges and N. F. Dudley Ward
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 3347-3353
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04432-3

Abstract:

In this paper we give a constructive characterisation of ultraweakly continuous linear functionals on the space of bounded linear operators on a separable Hilbert space.
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Bibliographic Information
  • D. S. Bridges
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
  • Email: douglas@waikato.ac.nz
  • N. F. Dudley Ward
  • Affiliation: School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England
  • Received by editor(s): September 1, 1995
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 7, 1997
  • Communicated by: Andreas R. Blass
  • © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 3347-3353
  • MSC (1991): Primary 46S30
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04432-3
  • MathSciNet review: 1459111