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It is shown that if α,ζ are ordinals such that 1 ≤ ζ < α < ζω, then there is an operator from $C\left({\omega }^{{\omega }^{\alpha }}\right)$ onto itself such that if Y is a subspace of $C\left({\omega }^{{\omega }^{\alpha }}\right)$ which is isomorphic to $C\left({\omega }^{{\omega }^{\alpha }}\right)$, then the operator is not an isomorphism on Y. This contrasts with a result of J. Bourgain that implies that there are uncountably many ordinals α for which for any operator from $C\left({\omega }^{{\omega }^{\alpha }}\right)$ onto itself there is a subspace of $C\left({\omega }^{{\omega }^{\alpha }}\right)$ which is isomorphic to $C\left({\omega }^{{\omega }^{\alpha }}\right)$ on which the operator is an isomorphism.

We introduce an ordinal index which measures the complexity of a weakly null sequence, and show that a construction due to J. Schreier can be iterated to produce for each α < ω₁, a weakly null sequence ${\left(x_n^{\alpha }\right)}_n$ in $C\left({\omega }^{{\omega }^{\alpha }}\right)$ with complexity α. As in the Schreier example each of these is a sequence of indicator functions which is a suppression-1 unconditional basic sequence. These sequences are used to construct Tsirelson-like spaces of large index. We also show that this new ordinal index is related to the Lavrent’ev...

Many of the known complemented subspaces of $L_p$ have realizations as sequence spaces. In this paper a systematic approach to defining these spaces which uses partitions and weights is introduced. This approach gives a unified description of many well known complemented subspaces of $L_p$. It is proved that the class of spaces with such norms is stable under (p,2) sums. By introducing the notion of an envelope norm, we obtain a necessary condition for a Banach sequence space with norm given by partitions...

A classical result of Cembranos and Freniche states that the C(K,X) space contains a complemented copy of c₀ whenever K is an infinite compact Hausdorff space and X is an infinite-dimensional Banach space. This paper takes this result as a starting point and begins a study of conditions under which the spaces C(α), α < ω₁, are quotients of or complemented in C(K,X). In contrast to the c₀ result, we prove that if C(βℕ ×[1,ω],X) contains a complemented copy of $C\left({\omega }^{\omega }\right)$ then X contains a copy of c₀. Moreover,...