Let H be a complex separable Hilbert space with $\dim H \geq 2$. Let $\mathcal {N}$ be a nest on H such that $E_+ \neq E$ for any $E \neq H, E \in \mathcal {N}$. We prove that every 2-local isometry of $\operatorname {Alg}\mathcal {N}$ is a surjective linear isometry.

This study analysed and compared the shell shape, morphometrics and relative growth of four sympatric limpet species (Patella depressa, Patella ulyssiponensis, Patella vulgata and Siphonaria pectinata) collected at Praia da Luz in Lagos (Algarve coast – southern Portugal). Morphometric relationships were established through regression analysis between linear (shell length, width and height), ponderal (total weight), area (shell base and surface areas) and volume variables (shell internal and total volumes). Relative growth (isometry vs allometry) was analysed to assess variation in the growth rate of morphometric variables throughout the species ontogeny. In addition, morphometric indices (ellipticity, conicity, density, surface area and volumetry) were calculated to further characterize shell shape. Overall, 1482 individuals with broad size and weight ranges were analysed (P. depressa = 354; P. ulyssiponensis = 306; P. vulgata = 408; S. pectinata = 414). All regressions were highly significant (P < 0.001) and the morphometric variables were strongly correlated (r = 0.761 to 0.994). Among 28 morphometric relationships, there were 14 isometries, 13 positive allometries and only one negative allometry. The morphometric indices revealed clear morphological differences between species and were mostly size-dependent, reflecting gradual changes in shell shape during growth. The main results are compared with a compilation of analogous data reported for these limpet species throughout their distributional range. Overall, the general trends in relative growth are discussed in terms of the species life habits, main traits and functional morphology.

We consider Hölder continuous cocycles over an accessible partially hyperbolic system with values in the group of diffeomorphisms of a compact manifold $\mathcal {M}$ . We obtain several results for this setting. If a cocycle is bounded in $C^{1+\gamma }$ , we show that it has a continuous invariant family of $\gamma $ -Hölder Riemannian metrics on $\mathcal {M}$ . We establish continuity of a measurable conjugacy between two cocycles assuming bunching or existence of holonomies for both and pre-compactness in $C^0$ for one of them. We give conditions for existence of a continuous conjugacy between two cocycles in terms of their cycle weights. We also study the relation between the conjugacy and holonomies of the cocycles. Our results give arbitrarily small loss of regularity of the conjugacy along the fiber compared to that of the holonomies and of the cocycle.

We study linear mappings which preserve vectors at a specific angle. We introduce the concept of $(\unicode[STIX]{x1D700},c)$-angle preserving mappings and define $\widehat{\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}}\,(T,c)$ as the ‘smallest’ number $\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}$ for which $T$ is an $(\unicode[STIX]{x1D700},c)$-angle preserving mapping. We derive an exact formula for $\widehat{\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}}\,(T,c)$ in terms of the norm $\Vert T\Vert$ and the minimum modulus $[T]$ of $T$. Finally, we characterise approximately angle preserving mappings.

This study reports the morphometric relationships and relative growth of 20 uncommon bivalve species collected along the Algarve coast (southern Portugal). Morphometric relationships were established between three linear variables (shell length, height and width) and one ponderal variable (total weight) and the relative growth between variables (isometry vs allometry) was analysed in order to assess their variation throughout ontogeny. In addition, morphometric indices (elongation, compactness, convexity and density) based on ratios of those linear and ponderal variables were calculated in order to further characterize morphologically the bivalve species. A total of 2512 individuals belonging to nine bivalve families were analysed, comprising specimens with broad ranges in both shell length (11.8–109.0 mm SL) and total weight (0.2–354.6 g TW). All morphometric relationships were highly significant (P < 0.001) and displayed invariably high correlation coefficients (r = 0.727–0.998). Among a total of 60 morphometric relationships, 27 isometries, 25 positive allometries and 8 negative allometries were registered. The morphometric indices displayed a remarkable variation among taxa, reflecting the high morphological diversity of these miscellaneous bivalve species. Discriminant analysis provided a spatial visualization of the species morphometric variables that further evidenced their main shape features, the distinctness between some species and families (e.g. Pharidae and Cardiidae) and the morphological resemblance among some species belonging to other families (e.g. Veneridae and Tellinidae). Overall, this information is useful and has practical application in diverse research fields, including studies on systematics and taxonomy, physiology, biology, ecology, fisheries assessment and management.

We show that any mapping between two real $p$-normed spaces, which preserves the unit distance and the midpoint of segments with distance $2^{p}$, is an isometry. Making use of it, we provide an alternative proof of some known results on the Aleksandrov question in normed spaces and also generalise these known results to $p$-normed spaces.

We prove some Banach–Stone type theorems for linear isometries of vector-valued continuous function spaces, by making use of the extreme point method.

Let $X,Y$ be two Banach spaces and $B_{X}$ the closed unit ball of $X$. We prove that if there is an isometry $f:B_{X}\rightarrow Y$ with $f(0)=0$, then there exists an isometry $F:X\rightarrow Y^{\ast \ast }$. If, in addition, $Y$ is weakly nearly strictly convex, then there is an isometry $F:X\rightarrow Y$. Making use of these results, we show that if $Y$ is weakly nearly strictly convex and there is an isometry $f:B_{X}\rightarrow Y$ with $f(0)=0$, then there exists a linear isometry $S:X\rightarrow Y$.

In this paper, we introduce the concept of a semi-parallelogram and obtain some results for the Aleksandrov–Rassias problem using this concept. In particular, we resolve an important case of this problem for mappings preserving two distances with a nonintegral ratio.

In this paper we prove a structure theorem for the class of $\mathcal{AN}$-operators between separable, complex Hilbert spaces which is similar to that of the singular value decomposition of a compact operator. Apart from this, we show that a bounded operator is $\mathcal{AN}$ if and only if it is either compact or a sum of a compact operator and scalar multiple of an isometry satisfying some condition. We obtain characterizations of these operators as a consequence of this structure theorem and deduce several properties which are similar to those of compact operators.

Let $(X,\,d)$ be a metric space, and let $\text{Lip(}X\text{)}$ denote the Banach space of all scalar-valued bounded Lipschitz functions $f$ on $X$ endowed with one of the natural norms

$$\left\| f \right\|\,=\,\max \{{{\left\| f \right\|}_{\infty }},\,L(f)\}\,\,\text{or}\,\,\left\| f \right\|\,=\,{{\left\| f \right\|}_{\infty }}\,+\,L(f),$$

where $L(f)$ is the Lipschitz constant of $f$. It is said that the isometry group of $\text{Lip(}X\text{)}$ is canonical if every surjective linear isometry of $\text{Lip(}X\text{)}$ is induced by a surjective isometry of $X$. In this paper we prove that if $X$ is bounded separable and the isometry group of $\text{Lip(}X\text{)}$ is canonical, then every 2-local isometry of $\text{Lip(}X\text{)}$ is a surjective linear isometry. Furthermore, we give a complete description of all 2-local isometries of $\text{Lip(}X\text{)}$ when $X$ is bounded.

We characterize those linear projections represented as a convex combination of two surjective isometries on standard Banach spaces of continuous functions with values in a strictly convex Banach space.

We exhibit a real Banach space M such that C(K,M) is almost transitive if K is the Cantor set, the growth of the integers in its Stone–Čech compactification or the maximal ideal space of L∞. For finite K, the space C(K,M) = M|K| is even transitive.

By means of $M$-structure and dimension theory, we generalize some known results and obtain some new ones on almost transitivity in $\mathcal{C}_0(L,X)$. For instance, if $X$ has the strong Banach–Stone property, then almost transitivity of $\mathcal{C}_0(L,X)$ is divided into two weaker properties, one of them depending only on topological properties of $L$ and the other being closely related to the covering dimensions of $L$ and $X$. This leads to some non-trivial examples of almost transitive $\mathcal{C}_0(L,X)$ spaces.

As an attempt to understand linear isometries between C*-algebras without the surjectivity assumption, we study linear isometries between matrix algebras. Denote by Mm the algebra of m × m complex matrices. If k ≥ n and φ: Mn → Mk has the form X ↦ U[X ⊕ f(X)] V or X ↦ U[X1 ⊕ f(X)]V for some unitary U, V ∈ Mk and contractive linear map f: Mn → Mk, then ║φ(X)║ = ║X║ for all X ∈ Mn. We prove that the converse is true if k ≤ 2n - 1, and the converse may fail if k ≥ 2n. Related results and questions involving positive linear maps and the numerical range are discussed.

Every norm $\mathcal{V}$ on ${{\text{C}}^{\text{n}}}$ induces two norm numerical ranges on the algebra ${{M}_{n}}\,\text{of}\,\text{all}\,\text{n}\,\times \,\text{n}$ complex matrices, the spatial numerical range

$$W\left( A \right)=\left\{ {{x}^{*}}Ay:x,y\in {{\text{C}}^{n}},{{v}^{D}}\left( x \right)=v\left( y \right)={{x}^{*}}y=1 \right\},$$

where ${{\mathcal{V}}^{D}}$ is the norm dual to $\mathcal{V}$, and the algebra numerical range

$$V\left( A \right)=\left\{ f\left( A \right):f\in S \right\},$$

where $S$ is the set of states on the normed algebra ${{M}_{n}}$ under the operator norm induced by $\mathcal{V}$. For a symmetric norm $\mathcal{V}$, we identify all linear maps on ${{M}_{n}}$ that preserve either one of the two norm numerical ranges or the set of states or vector states. We also identify the numerical radius isometries, i.e., linear maps that preserve the (one) numerical radius induced by either numerical range. In particular, it is shown that if $\mathcal{V}$ is not the ${{\ell }_{1}},{{\ell }_{2}},\,\text{or}\,{{\ell }_{\infty }}$ norms, then the linear maps that preserve either numerical range or either set of states are “inner”, i.e., of the form $A\mapsto {{Q}^{*}}AQ$, where $Q$ is a product of a diagonal unitary matrix and a permutation matrix and the numerical radius isometries are unimodular scalar multiples of such inner maps. For the ${{\ell }_{1}}$ and the ${{\ell }_{\infty }}$ norms, the results are quite different.

As a consequence of the main result of the paper we obtain that every 2-local isometry of the $C^*$-algebra $B(H)$ of all bounded linear operators on a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $H$ is an isometry. We have a similar statement concerning the isometries of any extension of the algebra of all compact operators by a separable commutative $C^*$-algebra. Therefore, on those $C^*$-algebras the isometries are completely determined by their local actions on the two-point subsets of the underlying algebras.

AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 47B49

A norm on ℝn is said to be permutation invariant if its value is preserved under permutation of the coordinates of a vector. The isometry group of such a norm must be closed, contain Sn and —I, and be conjugate to a subgroup of On, the orthogonal group. Motivated by this, we are interested in classifying all closed groups G such that 〈—I,Sn〉 < G < On. We use the theory of Lie groups to classify all possible infinite groups G, and use the theory of finite reflection groups to classify all possible finite groups G. In keeping with the original motivation, all groups arising are shown to be isometry groups. This completes the work of Gordon and Lewis, who studied the same problem and obtained the results for n ≥ 13.

Let 1 ≤ p < ∞, p ≠ 2 and let K be any complex Hilbert space. We prove that every isometry T of Hp(K) onto itself is of the form , where U ia a unitary operator on K and φ is a conformal map of the unit disc onto itself.