-convexity in infinite-dimensional banach spaces and applications to kergin interpolation凸性在无限维的巴拿赫空间和应用程序kergin插值.pdfVIP

C-CONVEXITY IN INFINITE-DIMENSIONAL BANACH SPACES AND APPLICATIONS TO KERGIN INTERPOLATION LARS FILIPSSON Received 2 February 2005; Revised 7 April 2006; Accepted 25 April 2006 We investigate the concepts of linear convexity and C-convexity in complex Banach spaces. The main result is that any C-convex domain is necessarily linearly convex. This is a complex version of the Hahn-Banach theorem, since it means the following: given a C-convex domain Ω in the Banach space X and a point p ∈/ Ω, there is a complex hyper- plane through p that does not intersect Ω. We also prove that linearly convex domains are holomorphically convex, and that Kergin interpolation can be performed on holo- morphic mappings defined in C-convex domains. Copyright © 2006 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction The objective of this paper is to study properties of C-convex and linearly convex sets in general complex Banach spaces. These notions of convexity are natural complex general- n izations of ordinary convexity and have been studied quite extensively in C . n Recall that there are several equivalent ways to define convexity for a domain Ω ⊂ R . One can, for instance, require Ω to have contractible intersections with lines, or one can require that through each point in the complement of Ω there passes a hyperplane that does not intersect the set, or that through each point in the boundary of Ω there passes such a hyperplane. Obviously, domains in Cn can be convex in this sense, since Cn can be identified with R2n . However, when the conditions above are given a complex interpretation, new no- tions of convexity arise. (1) A domain Ω ⊂ Cn is said to be C-convex if its intersection with any complex line is co