We study various notions of directional moduli of rotundity and when such moduli of rotundity of power type imply the underlying space is superreflexive. Duality with directional moduli of smoothness and some applications are also discussed.

If X is a Banach space and C a convex subset of X*, we investigate whether the distance $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),C):=supinf\left|\right|k-c\left|\right|:c\in C:k\in {\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right)$ from ${\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right)$ to C is M-controlled by the distance d̂(K,C) (that is, if $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),C)\le Md̂(K,C)$ for some 1 ≤ M < ∞), when K is any weak*-compact subset of X*. We prove, for example, that: (i) C has 3-control if C contains no copy of the basis of ℓ₁(c); (ii) C has 1-control when C ⊂ Y ⊂ X* and Y is a subspace with weak*-angelic closed dual unit ball B(Y*); (iii) if C is a convex subset of X and X is considered canonically embedded into...

The results of the first part concern the existence of higher order ℓ₁ spreading models in asymptotic ℓ₁ Banach spaces. We sketch the proof of the fact that the mixed Tsirelson space T[(ₙ,θₙ)ₙ], ${\theta }_{n+m}\ge \theta ₙ\theta ₘ$ and $li{m}_n\theta {ₙ}^{1/n}=1$, admits an $\ell {₁}^{\omega }$ spreading model in every block subspace. We also prove that if X is a Banach space with a basis, with the property that there exists a sequence (θₙ)ₙ ⊂ (0,1) with $li{m}_n\theta {ₙ}^{1/n}=1$, such that, for every n ∈ ℕ, $\left|\right|{\sum }_{k=1}^m{x}_k\left|\right|\ge \theta ₙ{\sum }_{k=1}^m\left|\right|x_k\left|\right|$ for every ₙ-admissible block sequence ${\left(x_k\right)}_{k=1}^m$ of vectors in X, then there exists c > 0 such...

An approximation property of divergent sequences in normed vector spaces is discussed.

Given a positive Banach-Saks operator T between two Banach lattices E and F, we give sufficient conditions on E and F in order to ensure that every positive operator dominated by T is Banach-Saks. A counterexample is also given when these conditions are dropped. Moreover, we deduce a characterization of the Banach-Saks property in Banach lattices in terms of disjointness.

We prove that a Banach space admitting an equivalent WUR norm is an Asplund space. Some related dual renormings are also presented.

This paper is an extension of the work done in [Morsli M., Bedouhene F., Boulahia F., Duality properties and Riesz representation theorem in the Besicovitch-Orlicz space of almost periodic functions, Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin. 43 (2002), no. 1, 103--117] to the Besicovitch-Musielak-Orlicz space of almost periodic functions. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the reflexivity of this space are given. A Riesz type ``duality representation theorem'' is also stated.

In [6], the classical Riesz representation theorem is extended to the class of Besicovitch space of almost periodic functions $B^q$ a.p., $q\in ]1,+\infty [$ . It is also shown that this space is reflexive. We shall consider here such results in the context of Orlicz spaces, namely in the class of Besicovitch-Orlicz space of almost periodic functions $B^{\phi }$ a.p., where $\phi$ is an Orlicz function.

Several properties of weakly p-summable sequences and of the scale of p-converging operators (i.e., operators transforming weakly p-summable sequences into convergent sequences) in projective and natural tensor products with an lp space are considered. The last section studies the Dunford-Pettis property of order p (i.e., every weakly compact operator is p-convergent) in those spaces.