Let A 1, A 2 be standard operator algebras on complex Banach spaces X 1, X 2, respectively. For k 2, let (i 1,, i m) be a sequence with terms chosen from {1,, k}, and define the generalized Jordan product T 1 T k= T i 1 T i m+ T i m T i 1 on elements in A i. This includes the usual Jordan product A 1 A 2= A 1 A 2+ A 2 A 1, and the triple {A 1, A 2, A 3}= A 1 A 2 A 3+ A 3 A 2 A 1. Assume that at least one of the terms in (i 1,, i m) appears exactly once. Let a map : A 1 A 2 satisfy that ( (A 1) (A k))= (A 1 A k) whenever any one of A 1,, A k has rank at most one. It is shown in this paper that if the range of contains all operators of rank at most three, then must be a Jordan isomorphism multiplied by an m th root of unity. Similar results for maps between self-adjoint operators acting on Hilbert spaces are also obtained.

Let <i>X, Y</i> be compact Hausdorff spaces and <i>E, F</i> be Banach spaces. A linear map <i>T: C(X, E) C(Y, F)</i> is separating if <i>Tf, Tg</i> have disjoint cozeroes whenever <i>f, g</i> have disjoint cozeroes. We prove that a biseparating linear bijection <i>T</i> (that is, <i>T</i> and <i>T</i>^-1 are separating) is a weighted composition operator <i>Tf = h f</i> o . Here, <i>h</i> is a function from <i>Y</i> into the set of invertible linear operators from <i>E</i> onto <i>F</i>, and , is a homeomorphism from <i>Y</i> onto <i>X</i>. We also show that <i>T</i> is bounded if and only if <i>h(y)</i> is a bounded operator from <i>E</i> onto <i>F</i> for all <i>y</i> in <i>Y</i>. In this case, <i>h</i> is continuous with respect to the strong operator topology.

Let A1, A2 be (not necessarily unital or closed) standard operator algebras on locally convex spaces X1, X2, respectively. For k 2, define different kinds of products T1 Tk on elements in Ai, which covers the usual product T1 Tk= T1 Tk, and the Jordan triple product T1 T2= T2T1T2. Let : A1 A2 be a (not necessarily linear) map satisfying that ( (A1) (Ak))= (A1 Ak) whenever any one of Ais is of rank zero or one. It is shown that if the range of contains all rank one and rank two operators then it must be a Jordan isomorphism multiplied by a root of unity. Similar results for self-adjoint operators acting on Hilbert spaces are obtained.

The object of this paper is to establish an existence result for nonlinear inequalities for not necessarily pseudomonotone maps. As a consequence of our result, we give some existence results for variational and variational-like inequalities.

Assume that <i>F</i> is a nonlinear operator on a real Hilbert space <i>H</i> which is -strongly monotone and -Lipschitzian on a nonempty closed convex subset <i>C</i> of <i>H</i>. Assume also that <i>C</i> is the intersection of the fixed-point sets of a finite number of nonexpansive mappings on <i>H</i>. We construct an iterative algorithm with variable parameters which generates a sequence {<i>x</i> _<i>n</i>} from an arbitrary initial point <i>x</i> ₀ <i>H</i>. The sequence {<i>x</i> _<i>n</i>} is shown to converge in norm to the unique solution <i>u</i>  of the variational inequality