We study the structure of Lipschitz and Hölder-type spaces and their preduals on general metric spaces, and give applications to the uniform structure of Banach spaces. In particular we resolve a problem of Weaver who asks wether if M is a compact metric space and 0 < α < 1, it is always true the space of Hölder continuous functions of class α is isomorphic to l∞. We show that, on the contrary, if M is a compact convex subset of a Hilbert space this isomorphism holds if and only if...

Bessaga and Pełczyński showed that if c₀ embeds in the dual X* of a Banach space X, then ℓ¹ embeds complementably in X, and ${\ell }^{\infty }$ embeds as a subspace of X*. In this note the Diestel-Faires theorem and techniques of Kalton are used to show that if X is an infinite-dimensional Banach space, Y is an arbitrary Banach space, and c₀ embeds in L(X,Y), then ${\ell }^{\infty }$ embeds in L(X,Y), and ℓ¹ embeds complementably in $X{\otimes }_{\gamma }Y*$. Applications to embeddings of c₀ in various spaces of operators are given.

On reflexive spaces trigonometrically well-bounded operators have an operator-ergodic-theory characterization as the invertible operators U such that $su{p}_{n\in \mathbb{N},z\in }\left|\right|{\sum }_{0<\left|k\right|\le n}(1-|k|/(n+1))k^{-1}{z}^k{U}^k\left|\right|<\infty$. (*) Trigonometrically well-bounded operators permeate many settings of modern analysis, and this note highlights the advances in both their spectral theory and operator ergodic theory made possible by a recent rekindling of interest in the R. C. James inequalities for super-reflexive spaces. When the James inequalities are combined with Young-Stieltjes...

We prove that a normalized non-weakly null basic sequence in the James tree space JT admits a subsequence which is equivalent to the summing basis for the James space J. Consequently, every normalized basic sequence admits a spreading subsequence which is either equivalent to the unit vector basis of $l_2$ or to the summing basis for J.

We characterize geometric properties of Banach spaces in terms of boundedness of square functions associated to general Schrödinger operators of the form ℒ = -Δ + V, where the nonnegative potential V satisfies a reverse Hölder inequality. The main idea is to sharpen the well known localization method introduced by Z. Shen. Our results can be regarded as alternative proofs of the boundedness in H¹, $L^p$ and BMO of classical ℒ-square functions.

* This work was supported by the CNR while the author was visiting the University of Milan.To a convex set in a Banach space we associate a convex function (the separating function), whose subdifferential provides useful information on the nature of the supporting and exposed points of the convex set. These points are shown to be also connected to the solutions of a minimization problem involving the separating function. We investigate some relevant properties of this function and of its conjugate...

The aim of this paper is to investigate stability of unit ball in Orlicz spaces, endowed with the Luxemburg norm, from the “local” point of view. Firstly, those points of the unit ball are characterized which are stable, i.e., at which the map $z\to \{(x,y):\frac{1}{2}(x+y)=z\}$ is lower-semicontinuous. Then the main theorem is established: An Orlicz space $L^{\varphi }\left(\mu \right)$ has stable unit ball if and only if either $L^{\varphi }\left(\mu \right)$ is finite dimensional or it is isometric to $L^{\infty }\left(\mu \right)$ or $\varphi$ satisfies the condition ${\Delta }_r$ or ${\Delta }_r^0$ (appropriate to the measure $\mu$ and the function...

We study strict u-ideals in Banach spaces. A Banach space X is a strict u-ideal in its bidual when the canonical decomposition $X***=X*\oplus X^{\perp }$ is unconditional. We characterize Banach spaces which are strict u-ideals in their bidual and show that if X is a strict u-ideal in a Banach space Y then X contains c₀. We also show that ${\ell }_{\infty }$ is not a u-ideal.

In any dual space X*, the set QP of quasi-polyhedral points is contained in the set SSD of points of strong subdifferentiability of the norm which is itself contained in the set NA of norm attaining functionals. We show that NA and SSD coincide if and only if every proximinal hyperplane of X is strongly proximinal, and that if QP and NA coincide then every finite codimensional proximinal subspace of X is strongly proximinal. Natural examples and applications are provided.