A quasi-dichotomy for C(α,X) spaces, α < ω₁
We prove the following quasi-dichotomy involving the Banach spaces C(α,X) of all X-valued continuous functions defined on the interval [0,α] of ordinals and endowed with the supremum norm. Suppose that X and Y are arbitrary Banach spaces of finite cotype. Then at least one of the following statements is true. (1) There exists a finite ordinal n such that either C(n,X) contains a copy of Y, or C(n,Y) contains a copy of X. (2) For any infinite countable...