We show that Kraus property $S_{sigma}$ is preserved under taking weak* closed sums with masa-bimodules of finite width, and establish an intersection formula for weak* closed spans of tensor products, one of whose terms is a masa-bimodule of finite
width. We initiate the study of the question of when operator synthesis is preserved under the formation of products and prove that the union of finitely many sets of the form $kappa times lambda$, where $kappa$ is a set of finite width, while $lambda$ is operator synthetic, is, under a necessary restriction on the sets $lambda$, again operator synthetic. We show that property $S_{sigma}$ is preserved under spatial Morita subordinance. En route, we prove that non-atomic ternary masa-bimodules possess property $S_{sigma}$ hereditarily.
We develop a general framework for reflexivity in dual Banach spaces, motivated by the question of when the weak* closed linear span of two reflexive masa-bimodules is automatically reflexive. We establish an affirmative answer to this question in a
number of cases by examining two new classes of masa-bimodules, defined in terms of ranges of masa-bimodule projections. We give a number of corollaries of our results concerning operator and spectral synthesis, and show that the classes of masa-bimodules we study are operator synthetic if and only if they are strong operator Ditkin.
We study reflexivity and structure properties of operator algebras generated by representations of the discrete Heisenberg semi-group. We show that the left regular representation of this semi-group gives rise to a semi-simple reflexive algebra. We e
xhibit an example of a representation which gives rise to a non-reflexive algebra. En route, we establish reflexivity results for subspaces of $H^{infty}(bb{T})otimescl B(cl H)$.
