We show that in the space C[-1,1] there exists an orthogonal algebraic polynomial basis with optimal growth of degrees of the polynomials.

A Banach space X is asymptotically symmetric (a.s.) if for some C < ∞, for all m ∈ ℕ, for all bounded sequences ${\left(x_j^i\right)}_{j=1}^{\infty }\subseteq X$, 1 ≤ i ≤ m, for all permutations σ of 1,...,m and all ultrafilters ₁,...,ₘ on ℕ, $li{m}_{n₁,₁}...li{m}_{nₘ,ₘ}\left|\right|{\sum }_{i=1}^m{x}_{n_i}^i\left|\right|\le Cli{m}_{n_{\sigma \left(1\right)}{,}_{\sigma \left(1\right)}}...li{m}_{n_{\sigma \left(m\right)}{,}_{\sigma \left(m\right)}}\left|\right|{\sum }_{i=1}^m{x}_{n_i}^i\left|\right|$. We investigate a.s. Banach spaces and several natural variations. X is weakly a.s. (w.a.s.) if the defining condition holds when restricted to weakly convergent sequences ${\left(x_j^i\right)}_{j=1}^{\infty }$. Moreover, X is w.n.a.s. if we restrict the condition further to normalized weakly null sequences. If X is a.s. then all spreading...

We investigate various kinds of bases in infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. In particular, we consider the complexity of Hamel bases in separable and non-separable Banach spaces and show that in a separable Banach space a Hamel basis cannot be analytic, whereas there are non-separable Hilbert spaces which have a discrete and closed Hamel basis. Further we investigate the existence of certain complete minimal systems in ${\ell }_{\infty }$ as well as in separable Banach spaces.

Ogni spazio di Banach ha un sistema bibasico $(x_n,f_n)$ normalizzato; inoltre ogni successione $(x_n)$ uniformemente minimale appartiene ad un sistema biortogonale limitato $(x_n,f_n)$, dove $(f_n)$ è M-basica e normante.

We show that for each natural number n > 1, it is consistent that there is a compact Hausdorff totally disconnected space $K_{2n}$ such that $C\left(K_{2n}\right)$ has no uncountable (semi)biorthogonal sequence ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of at most 2n-1 points of $K_{2n}$, but has biorthogonal systems ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of 2n points. This complements a result of Todorcevic which implies that it is consistent that such spaces do not exist: he proves that its is...

We study geodesic completeness for left-invariant Lorentz metrics on solvable Lie groups.