For a locally compact Hausdorff space K and a Banach space X we denote by C₀(K,X) the space of X-valued continuous functions on K which vanish at infinity, provided with the supremum norm. Let n be a positive integer, Γ an infinite set with the discrete topology, and X a Banach space having non-trivial cotype. We first prove that if the nth derived set of K is not empty, then the Banach-Mazur distance between C₀(Γ,X) and C₀(K,X) is greater than or equal to 2n + 1. We also show that the Banach-Mazur...

Let us denote by C(α) the classical Banach space C(K) when K is the interval of ordinals [1,α] endowed with the order topology. In the present paper, we give an answer to a 1960 Bessaga and Pełczyński question by providing tight bounds for the Banach-Mazur distance between C(ω) and any other C(K) space which is isomorphic to it. More precisely, we obtain lower bounds L(n,k) and upper bounds U(n,k) on d(C(ω),C(ωⁿk)) such that U(n,k) - L(n,k) < 2 for all 1 ≤ n, k < ω.

Se introducen los ideales de operadores que admiten extensión o levantamiento y se presenta una nueva aproximación al estudio de la escisión de sucesiones exactas cortas de espacios de Banach. Se considera la maximalidad de estos ideales y se investiga si son cerrados respecto de los límites puntuales acotados. Se resumen algunos ejemplos y se clarifica el papel de los espacios L1 y L∞.

A Banach space contains either a minimal subspace or a continuum of incomparable subspaces. General structure results for analytic equivalence relations are applied in the context of Banach spaces to show that if E₀ does not reduce to isomorphism of the subspaces of a space, in particular, if the subspaces of the space admit a classification up to isomorphism by real numbers, then any subspace with an unconditional basis is isomorphic to its square and hyperplanes, and the unconditional basis has...

We study infinite asymptotic games in Banach spaces with a finite-dimensional decomposition (F.D.D.) and prove that analytic games are determined by characterising precisely the conditions for the players to have winning strategies. These results are applied to characterise spaces embeddable into ${\ell }_p$ sums of finite dimensional spaces, extending results of Odell and Schlumprecht, and to study various notions of homogeneity of bases and Banach spaces. The results are related to questions of rapidity...

We use methods of infinite asymptotic games to characterize subspaces of Banach spaces with a finite-dimensional decomposition (FDD) and prove new theorems on operators. We consider a separable Banach space X, a set of sequences of finite subsets of X and the -game. We prove that if satisfies some specific stability conditions, then Player I has a winning strategy in the -game if and only if X has a skipped-blocking decomposition each of whose skipped-blockings belongs to . This result implies that...

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 46B03, 46B26. Secondary: 46E15, 54C35.We study the existence of pointwise Kadec renormings for Banach spaces of the form C(K). We show in particular that such a renorming exists when K is any product of compact linearly ordered spaces, extending the result for a single factor due to Haydon, Jayne, Namioka and Rogers. We show that if C(K1) has a pointwise Kadec renorming and K2 belongs to the class of spaces obtained by closing the class of compact...

We study the class of all rearrangement-invariant ( = r.i.) function spaces E on [0,1] such that there exists 0 < q < 1 for which $\parallel {\sum }_{k=1}^n{\xi }_k{\parallel }_E\le C{n}^q$, where ${{\xi }_k}_{k\ge 1}\subset E$ is an arbitrary sequence of independent identically distributed symmetric random variables on [0,1] and C > 0 does not depend on n. We completely characterize all Lorentz spaces having this property and complement classical results of Rodin and Semenov for Orlicz spaces $exp\left(L_p\right)$, p ≥ 1. We further apply our results to the study of Banach-Saks index sets in...

This paper is concerned with the isomorphic structure of the Banach space ${\ell }_{\infty }/c₀$ and how it depends on combinatorial tools whose existence is consistent with but not provable from the usual axioms of ZFC. Our main global result is that it is consistent that ${\ell }_{\infty }/c₀$ does not have an orthogonal ${\ell }_{\infty }$-decomposition, that is, it is not of the form ${\ell }_{\infty }\left(X\right)$ for any Banach space X. The main local result is that it is consistent that ${\ell }_{\infty }\left(c₀\left(\right)\right)$ does not embed isomorphically into ${\ell }_{\infty }/c₀$, where is the cardinality of the continuum, while ${\ell }_{\infty }$...

We investigate the existence of higher order ℓ¹-spreading models in subspaces of mixed Tsirelson spaces. For instance, we show that the following conditions are equivalent for the mixed Tsirelson space $X=T\left[{(\theta ₙ,ₙ)}_{n=1}^{\infty }\right]$: (1) Every block subspace of X contains an $\ell ¹{-}_{\omega }$-spreading model, (2) The Bourgain ℓ¹-index $I_b\left(Y\right)=I\left(Y\right)>{\omega }^{\omega }$ for any block subspace Y of X, (3) $limₘlimsupₙ{\theta }_{m+n}/\theta ₙ>0$ and every block subspace Y of X contains a block sequence equivalent to a subsequence of the unit vector basis of X. Moreover, if one (and hence all) of these conditions...