Let G be a metrizable, compact abelian group and let Λ be a subset of its dual group Ĝ. We show that $C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ has the almost Daugavet property if and only if Λ is an infinite set, and that $L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ has the almost Daugavet property if and only if Λ is not a Λ(1) set.

In this paper it is shown that if a Banach lattice $E$ contains a copy of $c_0$, then it contains an almost lattice isometric copy of $c_0$. The above result is a lattice version of the well-known result of James concerning the almost isometric copies of $c_0$ in Banach spaces.

We study when the Daugavet equation is satisfied for weakly compact polynomials on a Banach space X, i.e. when the equality ||Id + P|| = 1 + ||P|| is satisfied for all weakly compact polynomials P: X → X. We show that this is the case when X = C(K), the real or complex space of continuous functions on a compact space K without isolated points. We also study the alternative Daugavet equation $ma{x}_{\left|\omega \right|=1}\left|\right|Id+\omega P\left|\right|=1+\left|\right|P\left|\right|$ for polynomials P: X → X. We show that this equation holds for every polynomial on the complex space X =...

Let G be an infinite, compact abelian group and let Λ be a subset of its dual group Γ. We study the question which spaces of the form $C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ or $L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ and which quotients of the form $C\left(G\right)/C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ or $L¹\left(G\right)/L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ have the Daugavet property. We show that $C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ is a rich subspace of C(G) if and only if $\Gamma \setminus {\Lambda }^{-1}$ is a semi-Riesz set. If $L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ is a rich subspace of L¹(G), then $C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ is a rich subspace of C(G) as well. Concerning quotients, we prove that $C\left(G\right)/C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ has the Daugavet property if Λ is a Rosenthal set, and that $L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ is a poor subspace of L¹(G) if Λ is...

A Banach space is said to be L-embedded if it is complemented in its bidual in such a way that the norm between the two complementary subspaces is additive. We prove that the dual of a non-reflexive L-embedded Banach space contains $l^{\infty }$ isometrically.

Any bounded sequence in an L¹-space admits a subsequence which can be written as the sum of a sequence of pairwise disjoint elements and a sequence which forms a uniformly integrable or equiintegrable (equivalently, a relatively weakly compact) set. This is known as the Kadec-Pełczyński-Rosenthal subsequence splitting lemma and has been generalized to preduals of von Neuman algebras and of JBW*-algebras. In this note we generalize it to JBW*-triple preduals.

We study the numerical radius of Lipschitz operators on Banach spaces. We give its basic properties. Our main result is a characterization of finite-dimensional real Banach spaces with Lipschitz numerical index 1. We also explicitly compute the Lipschitz numerical index of some classical Banach spaces.

We show that the range of a contractive projection on a Lebesgue-Bochner space of Hilbert valued functions Lp(H) is isometric to a lp-direct sum of Hilbert-valued Lp-spaces. We explicit the structure of contractive projections. As a consequence for every 1 < p < ∞ the class Cp of lp-direct sums of Hilbert-valued Lp-spaces is axiomatizable (in the class of all Banach spaces).

Using the technique of Fraïssé theory, for every constant $K\ge 1$, we construct a universal object ${𝕌}_K$ in the class of Banach spaces possessing a normalized $K$-suppression unconditional Schauder basis.

This paper is an investigation of the universal separable metric space up to isometry U discovered by Urysohn. A concrete construction of U as a metric subspace of the space C[0,1] of functions from [0,1] to the reals with the supremum metric is given. An answer is given to a question of Sierpiński on isometric embeddings of U in C[0,1]. It is shown that the closed linear span of an isometric copy of U in a Banach space which contains the zero of the Banach space is determined up to linear isometry....