Let X be a compact Hausdorff space and C(X) the space of continuous functions defined on X. There are three versions of the Banach-Stone theorem. They assert that the Banach space geometry, the ring structure, and the lattice structure of C(X) determine the topological structure of X, respectively. In particular, the lattice version states that every disjointness preserving linear bijection T from C(X) onto C(Y) is a weighted composition operator Tf = h . f which provides a homeomorphism from Y onto X. In this note, we manage to use basically algebraic arguments to give this lattice version a short new proof. In this way, all three versions of the Banach-Stone theorem are unified in an algebraic framework such that different isomorphisms preserve different ideal structures of C(X).

Let T be a locally compact Hausdorff space, called base space. Suppose for each t in T there is a (real or complex) Banach space Et. A vector field x is an element in the product space t T Et, that is, x (t) Et, for all t T.

We introduce the Jordan product associated with the second-order cone K into the real Hilbert space H, and then define a one-parametric class of complementarity functions t on H H with the parameter t[0, 2). We show that the squared norm of t with t(0, 2) is a continuously F (rchet)-differentiable merit function. By this, the second-order cone complementarity problem (SOCCP) in H can be converted into an unconstrained smooth minimization problem involving this class of merit functions, and furthermore, under the monotonicity assumption, every stationary point of this minimization problem is shown to be a solution of the SOCCP.

Let A be a A -algebra with real rank zero. Let A and A be Hilbert A -modules with A being full. Suppose that A is a linear map preserving orthogonality, ie,

In this paper, we try to attack a conjecture of Araujo and Jarosz that every bijective linear map between C-algebras, with both and its inverse 1 preserving zero products, arises from an algebra isomorphism followed by a central multiplier. We show it is true for CCR C-algebras with Hausdorff spectrum, and in general, some special C-algebras associated to continuous fields of C-algebras.