Let X be a Banach space, C a closed subset of X, and T:C → C a nonexpansive mapping. It has recently been shown that if X is reflexive and locally uniformly convex and if the fixed point set F(T) of T has nonempty interior then the Picard iterates of the mapping T always converge to a point of F(T). In this paper it is shown that if T is assumed to be asymptotically regular, this condition can be weakened much further. Finally, some observations are made about the geometric conditions imposed.

* Supported by NSERC (Canada)Let X be a Banach space equipped with norm || · ||. We say that || · || is Gâteaux differentiable at x if for every h ∈ SX(|| · ||), (∗) lim t→0 (||x + th|| − ||x||) / t exists. We say that the norm || · || is Gâteaux differentiable if || · || is Gâteaux differentiable at all x ∈ SX(|| · ||).

It is shown in the note that every reflexive Orlicz function space has the Schroeder-Bernstein Property and the Primary Property.

Let X,Y be real Banach spaces and ε > 0. Suppose that f:X → Y is a surjective map satisfying | ∥f(x)-f(y)∥ - ∥x-y∥ | ≤ ε for all x,y ∈ X. Hyers and Ulam asked whether there exists an isometry U and a constant K such that ∥f(x) - Ux∥ ≤ Kε for all x ∈ X. It is well-known that the answer to the Hyers-Ulam problem is positive and K = 2 is the best possible solution with assumption f(0) = U0 = 0. In this paper, using the idea of Figiel's theorem on nonsurjective isometries, we give a new proof of...

We present an example of a Banach space $E$ admitting an equivalent weakly uniformly rotund norm and such that there is no $\Phi :E\to c_0\left(\Gamma \right)$, for any set $\Gamma$, linear, one-to-one and bounded. This answers a problem posed by Fabian, Godefroy, Hájek and Zizler. The space $E$ is actually the dual space $Y^{*}$ of a space $Y$ which is a subspace of a WCG space.

Using Tsirelson’s well-known example of a Banach space which does not contain a copy of $c_0$ or $l_p$, for p ≥ 1, we construct a simple Borel ideal $I_T$ such that the Borel cardinalities of the quotient spaces $P\left(\mathbb{N}\right)/I_T$ and $P\left(\mathbb{N}\right)/I_0$ are incomparable, where $I_0$ is the summable ideal of all sets A ⊆ ℕ such that ${\sum }_{n\in A}1/(n+1)<\infty$. This disproves a “trichotomy” conjecture for Borel ideals proposed by Kechris and Mazur.

We prove that weakly Lindelöf determined Banach spaces are characterized by the existence of a ``full'' projectional generator. Some other results pertaining to this class of Banach spaces are given.

It follows easily from a result of Lindenstrauss that, for any real twodimensional subspace v of L¹, the relative projection constant λ(v;L¹) of v equals its (absolute) projection constant $\lambda \left(v\right)=su{p}_X\lambda (v;X)$. The purpose of this paper is to recapture this result by exhibiting a simple formula for a subspace V contained in $L^{\infty }\left(\nu \right)$ and isometric to v and a projection $P_{\infty }$ from C ⊕ V onto V such that $\parallel P_{\infty }\parallel =\parallel P₁\parallel$, where P₁ is a minimal projection from L¹(ν) onto v. Specifically, if $P₁={\sum }_{i=1}^2{U}_i\otimes v_i$, then $P_{\infty }={\sum }_{i=1}^2{u}_i\otimes V_i$, where $d{V}_i=2v_{i}d\nu$ and $d{U}_i=-2u_{i}d\nu$.

There are necessary conditions for a point x from the unit sphere to be a denting point of the unit ball of Orlicz spaces equipped with the Orlicz norm generated by arbitrary Orlicz functions. In contrast to results in [12, 17, 16], we present also examples of Orlicz spaces in which strongly extreme points of the unit ball are not denting points.