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For a locally compact Hausdorff space K and a Banach space X let C₀(K, X) denote the space of all continuous functions f:K → X which vanish at infinity, equipped with the supremum norm. If X is the scalar field, we denote C₀(K, X) simply by C₀(K). We prove that for locally compact Hausdorff spaces K and L and for a Banach space X containing no copy of c₀, if there is an isomorphic embedding of C₀(K) into C₀(L,X), then either K is finite or |K| ≤ |L|. As a consequence, if there is an isomorphic embedding...

Given a compact Hausdorff space K we consider the Banach space of real continuous functions C(Kⁿ) or equivalently the n-fold injective tensor product $\otimes {̂}_{\epsilon }^{n}C\left(K\right)$ or the Banach space of vector valued continuous functions C(K,C(K,C(K...,C(K)...). We address the question of the existence of complemented copies of c₀(ω₁) in $\otimes {̂}_{\epsilon }^{n}C\left(K\right)$ under the hypothesis that C(K) contains such a copy. This is related to the results of E. Saab and P. Saab that $X\otimes {̂}_{\epsilon }Y$ contains a complemented copy of c₀ if one of the infinite-dimensional Banach...

Let us denote by C(α) the classical Banach space C(K) when K is the interval of ordinals [1,α] endowed with the order topology. In the present paper, we give an answer to a 1960 Bessaga and Pełczyński question by providing tight bounds for the Banach-Mazur distance between C(ω) and any other C(K) space which is isomorphic to it. More precisely, we obtain lower bounds L(n,k) and upper bounds U(n,k) on d(C(ω),C(ωⁿk)) such that U(n,k) - L(n,k) < 2 for all 1 ≤ n, k < ω.

In the spirit of the classical Banach-Stone theorem, we prove that if K and S are intervals of ordinals and X is a Banach space having non-trivial cotype, then the existence of an isomorphism T from C(K, X) onto C(S,X) with distortion $\left|\right|T\left|\right|\left|\right|T^{-1}\left|\right|$ strictly less than 3 implies that some finite topological sum of K is homeomorphic to some finite topological sum of S. Moreover, if Xⁿ contains no subspace isomorphic to $X^{n+1}$ for every n ∈ ℕ, then K is homeomorphic to S. In other words, we obtain a vector-valued Banach-Stone...

For a locally compact Hausdorff space K and a Banach space X we denote by C₀(K,X) the space of X-valued continuous functions on K which vanish at infinity, provided with the supremum norm. Let n be a positive integer, Γ an infinite set with the discrete topology, and X a Banach space having non-trivial cotype. We first prove that if the nth derived set of K is not empty, then the Banach-Mazur distance between C₀(Γ,X) and C₀(K,X) is greater than or equal to 2n + 1. We also show that the Banach-Mazur...