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.

Let M₁ and M₂ be N-functions. We establish some combinatorial inequalities and show that the product spaces $\ell {ⁿ}_{M₁}\left(\ell {ⁿ}_{M₂}\right)$ are uniformly isomorphic to subspaces of L₁ if M₁ and M₂ are “separated” by a function $t^r$, 1 < r < 2.

There has been a considerable search for radical, amenable Banach algebras. Noncommutative examples were finally found by Volker Runde [R]; here we present the first commutative examples. Centrally placed within the construction, the reader may be pleased to notice a reprise of the undergraduate argument that shows that a normed space with totally bounded unit ball is finite-dimensional; we use the same idea (approximate the norm 1 vector x within distance η by a “good” vector $y_1$; then approximate...

A bounded closed convex set K in a Banach space X is said to have quasi-normal structure if each bounded closed convex subset H of K for which diam(H) > 0 contains a point u for which ∥u-x∥ < diam(H) for each x ∈ H. It is shown that if the convex sets on the unit sphere in X satisfy this condition (which is much weaker than the assumption that convex sets on the unit sphere are separable), then relative to various weak topologies, the unit ball in X is compact whenever it is countably compact....

Does a given Banach space have any non-trivial complemented subspaces? Usually, the answer is: yes, quite a lot. Sometimes the answer is: no, none at all.

Let [Lambda] be a barrelled perfect (in the sense of J. Dieudonné) Köthe space of measurable functions defined on an atomless finite Radon measure space. Let X be a Banach space containing a copy of c0, then the space [Lambda(X)] of [Lambda]-Bochner integrable functions contains a complemented copy of c0.

We give sufficient conditions on Banach spaces $X$ and $Y$ so that their projective tensor product $X{\otimes }_{\pi }Y$, their injective tensor product $X{\otimes }_{ϵ}Y$, or the dual ${\left(X{\otimes }_{\pi }Y\right)}^{*}$ contain complemented copies of ${\ell }_p$.

We prove that the direct sum and the product of countably many copies of L1[0, 1] are primary locally convex spaces. We also give some related results.

The purpose of this note is to announce, without proofs, some results concerning vector valued multilinear operators on a product of C(K) spaces.

A Banach space X has the Dunford-Pettis property (DPP) provided that every weakly compact operator T from X to any Banach space Y is completely continuous (or a Dunford-Pettis operator). It is known that X has the DPP if and only if every weakly null sequence in X is a Dunford-Pettis subset of X. In this paper we give equivalent characterizations of Banach spaces X such that every weakly Cauchy sequence in X is a limited subset of X. We prove that every operator T: X → c₀ is completely continuous...