On estimates of the generalized Jordan--von Neumann constant of Banach spaces.
In the paper we consider a class of Orlicz spaces equipped with the Orlicz norm over a non-negative, complete and sigma-finite measure space (T,Sigma,mu), which covers, among others, Orlicz spaces isomorphic to L-infinite and the interpolation space L1 + L-infinite. We give some necessary conditions for a point x from the unit sphere to be extreme. Applying this characterization, in the case of an atomless measure mu, we find a description of the set of extreme points of L1 + L-infinite which corresponds...
It is shown that the order of Gateaux smoothness of bump functions on a wide class of Banach spaces with unconditional basis is not better than that of Fréchet differentiability. It is proved as well that in the separable case this order for Banach lattices satisfying a lower p-estimate for 1≤ p < 2 can be only slightly better.
A characterization of topological spaces admitting a countable cover by sets of small local diameter close in spirit to known characterizations of fragmentability is obtained. It is proved that if X and Y are Hausdorff compacta such that C(X) has an equivalent p-Kadec norm and has a countable cover by sets of small local norm diameter, then has a countable cover by sets of small local norm diameter as well.
Several concepts of incomparability of Banach spaces have been considered in the literature, which allow one to describe some of the properties of the product of two Banach spaces as a juxtaposition of the corresponding properties of the factors. In this paper we study the relations between these concepts of incomparability, survey the main results and applications, and state some open problems.
An infinite dimensional counterpart of uniform smoothness is studied. It does not imply reflexivity, but we prove that it gives some -type estimates for finite dimensional decompositions, weak Banach-Saks property and the weak fixed point property.
Some relations between the James (or non-square) constant J(X) and the Jordan-von Neumann constant , and the normal structure coefficient N(X) of Banach spaces X are investigated. Relations between J(X) and J(X*) are given as an answer to a problem of Gao and Lau [16]. Connections between and J(X) are also shown. The normal structure coefficient of a Banach space is estimated by the -constant, which implies that a Banach space with -constant less than 5/4 has the fixed point property.
This paper deals with a few, not widely known, aspects of Kottman's constant of a Banach space and its symmetric and finite variations. We will consider their behaviour under ultrapowers, relations with other parameters such as Whitley's or James' constant, and connection with the extension of c₀-valued Lipschitz maps.
We find conditions for a smooth nonlinear map f: U → V between open subsets of Hilbert or Banach spaces to be locally convex in the sense that for some c and each positive ɛ < c the image f(B ɛ(x)) of each ɛ-ball B ɛ(x) ⊂ U is convex. We give a lower bound on c via the second order Lipschitz constant Lip2(f), the Lipschitz-open constant Lipo(f) of f, and the 2-convexity number conv2(X) of the Banach space X.