Quelques remarques sur les opérateurs et les q-algèbres de Banach.
We characterize those classes 𝓒 of separable Banach spaces for which there exists a separable Banach space Y not containing ℓ₁ and such that every space in the class 𝓒 is a quotient of Y.
We consider a general concept of Daugavet property with respect to a norming subspace. This concept covers both the usual Daugavet property and its weak* analogue. We introduce and study analogues of narrow operators and rich subspaces in this general setting and apply the results to show that a quotient of L₁[0,1] by an ℓ₁-subspace need not have the Daugavet property. The latter answers in the negative a question posed to us by A. Pełczyński.
On each nonreflexive Banach space X there exists a positive continuous convex function f such that 1/f is not a d.c. function (i.e., a difference of two continuous convex functions). This result together with known ones implies that X is reflexive if and only if each everywhere defined quotient of two continuous convex functions is a d.c. function. Our construction also gives a stronger version of Klee's result concerning renormings of nonreflexive spaces and non-norm-attaining functionals.
We present a simple proof of a theorem that yields as a corollary a result of Valdivia that sharpens an old result of Johnson and Rosenthal.
In this note we deal with a version of James' Theorem for numerical radius, which was already considered in [4]. First of all, let us recall that this well known classical result states that a Banach space satisfying that all the (bounded and linear) functionals attain the norm, has to be reflexive [16].
The aim of this paper is to show that for every Banach space (X, || · ||) containing asymptotically isometric copy of the space c0 there is a bounded, closed and convex set C ⊂ X with the Chebyshev radius r(C) = 1 such that for every k ≥ 1 there exists a k-contractive mapping T : C → C with [...] for any x ∊ C.
It is proved that a representable non-separable Banach space does not admit uniformly Gâteaux-smooth norms. This is true in particular for C(K) spaces where K is a separable non-metrizable Rosenthal compact space.
Let X and Y be two Banach spaces, each isomorphic to a complemented subspace of the other. In 1996, W. T. Gowers solved the Schroeder-Bernstein Problem for Banach spaces by showing that X is not necessarily isomorphic to Y. In this paper, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on the quintuples (p,q,r,s,t) in ℕ for X to be isomorphic to Y whenever ⎧, ⎨ ⎩ . Such quintuples are called Schroeder-Bernstein quintuples for Banach spaces and they yield a unification of the known decomposition...
We show that, if μ is a probability measure and X is a Banach space, then the space L¹(μ,X) of Bochner integrable functions admits an equivalent Gâteaux (or uniformly Gâteaux) smooth norm provided that X has such a norm, and that if X admits an equivalent Fréchet (resp. uniformly Fréchet) smooth norm, then L¹(μ,X) has an equivalent renorming whose restriction to every reflexive subspace is Fréchet (resp. uniformly Fréchet) smooth.
This is a short survey on some recent as well as classical results and open problems in smoothness and renormings of Banach spaces. Applications in general topology and nonlinear analysis are considered. A few new results and new proofs are included. An effort has been made that a young researcher may enjoy going through it without any special pre-requisites and get a feeling about this area of Banach space theory. Many open problems of different level of difficulty are discussed. For the reader...