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.

The Birkhoff orthogonality has been recently intensively studied in connection with the geometry of Banach spaces and operator theory. The main aim of this paper is to characterize the Birkhoff orthogonality in ${\mathcal{L}}(X;Y)$ under the assumption that ${\mathcal{K}}(X;Y)$ is an $M$-ideal in ${\mathcal{L}}(X;Y)$. Moreover, we survey the known results, as well as giving some new and more general ones. Furthermore, we characterize an approximate Birkhoff orthogonality in ${\mathcal{K}}(X;Y)$.

We establish a spectral characterization theorem for the operators on complex Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimensions that attain their norm on every closed subspace. The class of these operators is not closed under addition. Nevertheless, we prove that the intersection of these operators with the positive operators forms a proper cone in the real Banach space of hermitian operators.

Recently, a new equivalence relation between weak* closed operator spaces acting on Hilbert spaces has appeared. Two weak* closed operator spaces ${\mathcal{U}}$, ${\mathcal{V}}$ are called weak TRO equivalent if there exist ternary rings of operators ${\mathcal{M}}$i, i = 1, 2 such that ${\mathcal{U}}=[{\mathcal{M}}_2{\mathcal{V}}{\mathcal{M}}_1^*]^{-w^*}, {\mathcal{V}}=[{\mathcal{M}}_2^*{\mathcal{U}}{\mathcal{M}}_1]^{-w^*}.$ Weak TRO equivalent spaces are stably isomorphic, and conversely, stably isomorphic dual operator spaces have normal completely isometric representations with weak TRO equivalent images. In this paper, we prove that if ${\mathcal{U}}$ and ${\mathcal{V}}$ are weak TRO equivalent operator spaces and the space of I × I matrices with entries in ${\mathcal{U}}$, MIw(${\mathcal{U}}$), is hyperreflexive for suitable infinite I, then so is MIw(${\mathcal{V}}$). We describe situations where if ${\mathcal{L}}$1, ${\mathcal{L}}$2 are isomorphic lattices, then the corresponding algebras Alg($\mathcal{L}$1), Alg($\mathcal{L}$2) have the same complete hyperreflexivity constant.

We introduce the spaces Vℬp(X) (respectively 𝒱ℬp(X)) of the vector measures ℱ:Σ→X of bounded (p,ℬ)-variation (respectively of bounded (p,ℬ)-semivariation) with respect to a bounded bilinear map ℬ:X×Y →Z and show that the spaces Lℬp(X) consisting of functions which are p-integrable with respect to ℬ, defined in by Blasco and Calabuig [‘Vector-valued functions integrable with respect to bilinear maps’, Taiwanese Math. J. to appear], are isometrically embedded in Vℬp(X). We characterize 𝒱ℬp(X) in terms of bilinear maps from Lp′×Y into Z and Vℬp(X) as a subspace of operators from Lp′(Z*) into Y*. Also we define the notion of cone absolutely summing bilinear maps in order to describe the (p,ℬ)-variation of a measure in terms of the cone-absolutely summing norm of the corresponding bilinear map from Lp′×Y into Z.

It is shown that, if $E$ and $F$ are Banach spaces containing complemented copies of $\ell_1$, then the space of integral operators ${\mathcal I}(E,F^*)\equiv (E\otimes_\eps F)^*$ contains a complemented copy of $\ell_2$. This answers a question of Félix Cabello and Ricardo García.

We give an example of a Banach space X such that K (X, X) is not an ideal in K (X, X**). We prove that if z* is a weak* denting point in the unit ball of Z* and if X is a closed subspace of a Banach space Y, then the set of norm-preserving extensions H B(x* ⊗ z*) ⊆ (Z*, Y)* of a functional x* ⊗ Z* ∈ (Z ⊗ X)* is equal to the set H B(x*) ⊗ {z*}. Using this result, we show that if X is an M-ideal in Y and Z is a reflexive Banach space, then K (Z, X) is an M-ideal in K(Z, Y) whenever K (Z, X) is an ideal in K (Z, Y). We also show that K (Z, X) is an ideal (respectively, an M-ideal) in K (Z, Y) for all Banach spaces Z whenever X is an ideal (respectively, an M-ideal) in Y and X * has the compact approximation property with conjugate operators.