Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society

Research Article

Lacunarity on nonabelian groups and summing operators

P. G. Doddsa1

a1 1/242 Sir Fred Schonell Drive St. Lucia QLD 4067 Australia e-mail: lermer@mailbox.uq.edu.au

Abstract

In this note we investigate lacunarity or ‘thin’ subsets in the dual object of a compact group via different classes of summing operators between Banach spaces. In particular, we give characterisations of Sidon and xs2227 (p) sets, 2 < p < ∞

(Received January 24 2000)

(Revised December 06 2000)

2000 Mathematics subject classification

  • primary 47B10;
  • 42A55