We introduce and study the notion of hereditarily A-indecomposable Banach space for A a space ideal. For a hereditarily A-indecomposable space X we show that the operators from X into a Banach space Y can be written as the union of two sets A Φ+(X,Y) and A(X;Y ). For some ideals A defined in terms of incomparability, the first set is open, the second set correspond to a closed operator ideal and the union is disjoint.

We study the class of descriptive compact spaces, the Banach spaces generated by descriptive compact subsets and their relation to renorming problems.

We prove a game-theoretic dichotomy for $G_{\delta \sigma }$ sets of block sequences in vector spaces that extends, on the one hand, the block Ramsey theorem of W. T. Gowers proved for analytic sets of block sequences and, on the other hand, M. Davis’ proof of Σ⁰₃ determinacy.

For a countable compact metric space and a seminormalized weakly null sequence (fₙ)ₙ in C() we provide some upper bounds for the norm of the vectors in the linear span of a subsequence of (fₙ)ₙ. These bounds depend on the complexity of and also on the sequence (fₙ)ₙ itself. Moreover, we introduce the class of c₀-hierarchies. We prove that for every α < ω₁, every normalized weakly null sequence (fₙ)ₙ in $C\left({\omega }^{{\omega }^{\alpha }}\right)$ and every c₀-hierarchy generated by (fₙ)ₙ, there exists β ≤ α such that a sequence of β-blocks...

The results of the first part concern the existence of higher order ℓ₁ spreading models in asymptotic ℓ₁ Banach spaces. We sketch the proof of the fact that the mixed Tsirelson space T[(ₙ,θₙ)ₙ], ${\theta }_{n+m}\ge \theta ₙ\theta ₘ$ and $li{m}_n\theta {ₙ}^{1/n}=1$, admits an $\ell {₁}^{\omega }$ spreading model in every block subspace. We also prove that if X is a Banach space with a basis, with the property that there exists a sequence (θₙ)ₙ ⊂ (0,1) with $li{m}_n\theta {ₙ}^{1/n}=1$, such that, for every n ∈ ℕ, $\left|\right|{\sum }_{k=1}^m{x}_k\left|\right|\ge \theta ₙ{\sum }_{k=1}^m\left|\right|x_k\left|\right|$ for every ₙ-admissible block sequence ${\left(x_k\right)}_{k=1}^m$ of vectors in X, then there exists c > 0 such...

We prove that a Banach space admitting an equivalent WUR norm is an Asplund space. Some related dual renormings are also presented.