On sequences of contractive mappings and their fixed points.
We construct an example of a Banach space E such that every weakly compact subset of E is bisequential and E contains a weakly compact subset which cannot be embedded in a Hilbert space equipped with the weak topology. This answers a question of Nyikos.
Let T 1 and T 2 be topologies defined on the same set X and let us say that (X, T 1) and (X, T 2) are similar if the families of sets which have nonempty interior with respect to T 1 and T 2 coincide. The aim of the paper is to study how similar topologies are related with each other.
We characterize those uniform spaces and commutative topological groups the bounded subsets of which can be recognized by using only one uniformly continuous pseudometric.