We investigate Baire classes of strongly affine mappings with values in Fréchet spaces. We show, in particular, that the validity of the vector-valued Mokobodzki result on affine functions of the first Baire class is related to the approximation property of the range space. We further extend several results known for scalar functions on Choquet simplices or on dual balls of L₁-preduals to the vector-valued case. This concerns, in particular, affine classes of strongly affine Baire mappings, the...

Let $X$ be a complex $L_1$-predual, non-separable in general. We investigate extendability of complex-valued bounded homogeneous Baire-$\alpha$ functions on the set $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ of the extreme points of the dual unit ball $B_{X^{*}}$ to the whole unit ball $B_{X^{*}}$. As a corollary we show that, given $\alpha \in [1,{\omega }_1)$, the intrinsic $\alpha$-th Baire class of $X$ can be identified with the space of bounded homogeneous Baire-$\alpha$ functions on the set $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ when $\mathrm{ext}{B}_{X^{*}}$ satisfies certain topological assumptions. The paper is intended to be a complex counterpart to the same authors’...

For infinite discrete additive semigroups $X\subset [0,\infty )$ we study normed algebras of arithmetic functions $g:X\to ℂ$ endowed with the linear operations and the convolution. In particular, we investigate the problem of scaling the mean deviation of related multiplicative functions for $X=log\mathbb{N}$. This involves an extension of Banach algebras of arithmetic functions by introducing weight functions and proving a weighted inversion theorem of Wiener type in the frame of Gelfand’s theory of commutative Banach algebras.

Suppose that X and Y are Banach spaces that embed complementably into each other. Are X and Y necessarily isomorphic? In this generality, the answer is no, as proved by W. T. Gowers in 1996. However, if X contains a complemented copy of its square X², then X is isomorphic to Y whenever there exists p ∈ ℕ such that $X^p$ can be decomposed into a direct sum of $X^{p-1}$ and Y. Motivated by this fact, we introduce the concept of (p,q,r) widely complemented subspaces in Banach spaces, where p,q and r ∈ ℕ. Then,...

We give biorthogonal system characterizations of Banach spaces that fail the Dunford-Pettis property, contain an isomorphic copy of c₀, or fail the hereditary Dunford-Pettis property. We combine this with previous results to show that each infinite-dimensional Banach space has one of three types of biorthogonal systems.

For two Banach spaces X and Y, we write $di{m}_{\ell }\left(X\right)=di{m}_{\ell }\left(Y\right)$ if X embeds into Y and vice versa; then we say that X and Y have the same linear dimension. In this paper, we consider classes of Banach spaces with symmetric bases. We say that such a class ℱ has the Cantor-Bernstein property if for every X,Y ∈ ℱ the condition $di{m}_{\ell }\left(X\right)=di{m}_{\ell }\left(Y\right)$ implies the respective bases (of X and Y) are equivalent, and hence the spaces X and Y are isomorphic. We prove (Theorems 3.1, 3.3, 3.5) that the class of Orlicz sequence spaces generated by regularly...

For every element x** in the double dual of a separable Banach space X there exists the sequence $\left(x^{\left(2n\right)}\right)$ of the canonical reproductions of x** in the even-order duals of X. In this paper we prove that every such sequence defines a spreading model for X. Using this result we characterize the elements of X**╲ X which belong to the class $B_1\left(X\right)╲B_{1/2}\left(X\right)$ (resp. to the class $B_{1/4}\left(X\right)$) as the elements with the sequence $\left(x^{\left(2n\right)}\right)$ equivalent to the usual basis of ${\ell }^1$ (resp. as the elements with the sequence $(x^{(4n-2)}-x^{\left(4n\right)})$ equivalent to the usual basis...

We give a full characterization of the closed one-codimensional subspaces of $c_0$, in which every bounded set has a Chebyshev center. It turns out that one can consider equivalently only finite sets (even only three-point sets) in our case, but not in general. Such hyperplanes are exactly those which are either proximinal or norm-one complemented.

We show that zero-dimensional nondiscrete closed subgroups do exist in Banach spaces E. This happens exactly when E contains an isomorphic copy of $c_0$. Other results on subgroups of linear spaces are obtained.