Descripción: We study the existence of atomic decompositions for tensor products of Banach spaces and spaces of homogeneous polynomials. If a Banach space X admits an atomic decomposition of a certain kind, we show that the symmetrized tensor product of the elements of the atomic decomposition provides an atomic decomposition for the symmetric tensor product ⊗s, μ n X, for any symmetric tensor norm μ. In addition, the reciprocal statement is investigated and analogous consequences for the full tensor product are obtained. Finally we apply the previous results to establish the existence of monomial atomic decompositions for certain ideals of polynomials on X. © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Descripción: We introduce the symmetric Radon-Nikodỳm property (sRN property) for finitely generated s-tensor norms β of order n and prove a Lewis type theorem for s-tensor norms with this property. As a consequence, if β is a projective s-tensor norm with the sRN property, then for every Asplund space E, the canonical mapping {position indicator}~βn,sE'→({position indicator}~β'n,sE)' is a metric surjection. This can be rephrased as the isometric isomorphism Qmin(E)=Q(E) for some polynomial ideal Q. We also relate the sRN property of an s-tensor norm with the Asplund or Radon-Nikodỳm properties of different tensor products. As an application, results concerning the ideal of n-homogeneous extendible polynomials are obtained, as well as a new proof of the well-known isometric isomorphism between nuclear and integral polynomials on Asplund spaces. An analogous study is carried out for full tensor products. © 2010 Elsevier Inc.

Descripción: In the spirit of the work of Grothendieck, we introduce and study natural symmetric n-fold tensor norms. These are norms obtained from the projective norm by some natural operations. We prove that there are exactly six natural symmetric tensor norms for n≥ 3, a noteworthy difference with the 2-fold case in which there are four. We also describe the polynomial ideals associated to these natural symmetric tensor norms. Using a symmetric version of a result of Carne, we establish which natural symmetric tensor norms preserve the Banach algebra structure. © 2011 Elsevier Inc.

Descripción: Given a homogeneous polynomial on a Banach space E belonging to some maximal or minimal polynomial ideal, we consider its iterated extension to an ultrapower of E and prove that this extension remains in the ideal and has the same ideal norm. As a consequence, we show that the Aron-Berner extension is a well defined isometry for any maximal or minimal ideal of homogeneous polynomials. This allows us to obtain symmetric versions of some basic results of the metric theory of tensor products. © 2010 Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University. All rights reserved.

Descripción: Under certain hypotheses on the Banach space X, we show that the set of N-homogeneous polynomials from X to any dual space, whose Aron-Berner extensions are norm attaining, is dense in the space of all continuous N-homogeneous polynomials. To this end we prove an integral formula for the duality between tensor products and polynomials. We also exhibit examples of Lorentz sequence spaces for which there is no polynomial Bishop-Phelps theorem, but our results apply. Finally we address quantitative versions, in the sense of Bollobás, of these results. © 2012 Elsevier Inc..