Large ideals in B(L1(0,1))
Abstract
We show that the norm-closed linear span of products of two Dunford-Pettis operators on L1(0,1) lies strictly between the representable and the Dunford-Pettis operators. This gives an additional proper large closed ideal in ℬ(L1(0,1)), answering the existence question of Johnson, Pisier and Schechtman. The quotient of the Dunford-Pettis ideal by this square ideal contains a contractively complemented isometric copy of L1(0,1). We also prove that the Dunford-Pettis ideal has no right approximate identity, answering a question of Johnson and Schechtman. More precisely, a positive norm-one convolution operator R satisfies |R−RT|≥1 and |R−TR|≥1 for every Dunford-Pettis operator T. The proofs combine translation averaging, Rajchman measures supported on a strongly independent set, and two atomless disintegrations of positive operators. The approximate-identity obstruction extends to every finite measure space with a nonzero atomless part. Finally, we prove that quantitative multiplication estimates for an ideal pass to all its closed power ideals.
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BibTeX
@misc{nasseri2026large,
title = {{Large ideals in B(L1(0,1))}},
author = {Amir Bahman Nasseri},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.18348},
eprint = {2609.18348},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18348},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Large ideals in B(L1(0,1))
AU - Amir Bahman Nasseri
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/16
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.18348
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18348
AB - We show that the norm-closed linear span of products of two Dunford-Pettis operators on L^1(0,1) lies strictly between the representable and the Dunford-Pettis operators. This gives an additional proper large closed ideal in ℬ(L^1(0,1)), answering the existence question of Johnson, Pisier and Schechtman. The quotient of the Dunford-Pettis ideal by this square ideal contains a contractively complemented isometric copy of L^1(0,1). We also prove that the Dunford-Pettis ideal has no right approximate identity, answering a question of Johnson and Schechtman. More precisely, a positive norm-one convolution operator R satisfies |R−RT|≥1 and |R−TR|≥1 for every Dunford-Pettis operator T. The proofs combine translation averaging, Rajchman measures supported on a strongly independent set, and two atomless disintegrations of positive operators. The approximate-identity obstruction extends to every finite measure space with a nonzero atomless part. Finally, we prove that quantitative multiplication estimates for an ideal pass to all its closed power ideals.
ER -