On bases, compactness and weak convergence in the Banach space
Completeness criterion of W. Robertson is generalized. Applications to vector valued sequences and to spaces of linear mappings are given.
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.
We show several characterizations of weakly compact sets in Banach spaces. Given a bounded closed convex set C of a Banach space X, the following statements are equivalent: (i) C is weakly compact; (ii) C can be affinely uniformly embedded into a reflexive Banach space; (iii) there exists an equivalent norm on X which has the w2R-property on C; (iv) there is a continuous and w*-lower semicontinuous seminorm p on the dual X* with such that p² is everywhere Fréchet differentiable in X*; and as a...
A (Hausdorff) topological group is said to have a -base if it admits a base of neighbourhoods of the unit, , such that whenever β ≤ α for all . The class of all metrizable topological groups is a proper subclass of the class of all topological groups having a -base. We prove that a topological group is metrizable iff it is Fréchet-Urysohn and has a -base. We also show that any precompact set in a topological group is metrizable, and hence G is strictly angelic. We deduce from this result...
Let L-phi be an Orlicz space defined by a Young function phi over a sigma-finite measure space, and let phi* denote the complementary function in the sense of Young. We give a characterization of the Mackey topology tau(L*,L-phi*) in terms of some family of norms defined by some regular Young functions. Next we describe order continuous (=absolutely continuous) Riesz seminorms on L-phi, and obtain a criterion for relative sigma(L-phi,L-phi*)-compactness in L-phi. As an application we get a representation...