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.

In the paper, we show that the space of functions of bounded variation and the space of regulated functions are, in some sense, the dual space of each other, involving the Henstock-Kurzweil-Stieltjes integral.

If X is a Banach space and C ⊂ X a convex subset, for x** ∈ X** and A ⊂ X** let d(x**,C) = inf||x**-x||: x ∈ C be the distance from x** to C and d̂(A,C) = supd(a,C): a ∈ A. Among other things, we prove that if X is an order-continuous Banach lattice and K is a w*-compact subset of X** we have: (i) $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),X)\le 2d̂(K,X)$ and, if K ∩ X is w*-dense in K, then $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),X)=d̂(K,X)$; (ii) if X fails to have a copy of ℓ₁(ℵ₁), then $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),X)=d̂(K,X)$; (iii) if X has a 1-symmetric basis, then $d̂({\overline{co}}^{w*}\left(K\right),X)=d̂(K,X)$.

We disprove the existence of a universal object in several classes of spaces including the class of weakly Lindelöf Banach spaces.

We examine the Gruenhage property, property * (introduced by Orihuela, Smith, and Troyanski), fragmentability, and the existence of σ-isolated networks in the context of linearly ordered topological spaces (LOTS), generalized ordered spaces (GO-spaces), and monotonically normal spaces. We show that any monotonically normal space with property * or with a σ-isolated network must be hereditarily paracompact, so that property * and the Gruenhage property are equivalent in monotonically normal spaces....

One way to generalize complete Erdős space ${}_c$ is to consider uncountable products of zero-dimensional $G_{\delta }$-subsets of the real line, intersected with an appropriate Banach space. The resulting (nonseparable) complete Erdős spaces can be fully classified by only two cardinal invariants, as done in an earlier paper of the authors together with J. van Mill. As we think this is the correct way to generalize the concept of complete Erdős space to a nonseparable setting, natural questions arise about analogies...

Sea X un espacio de Banach con una base incondicional de Schauder no numerable, y sea Y un subespacio arbitrario no separable de X. Si X no contiene una copia isomorfa de l1(J) con J no numerable entonces (1) la densidad de Y y la débil*-densidad de Y* son iguales, y (2) la bola unidad de X* es débil* sucesionalmente compacta. Además, (1) implica que Y contiene subconjuntos grandes formados por elementos disjuntos dos a dos, y una propiedad similar se verifica para las bases incondicionales no numerables...

Let X be a Banach space. We study the circumstances under which there exists an uncountable set 𝓐 ⊂ X of unit vectors such that ||x-y|| > 1 for any distinct x,y ∈ 𝓐. We prove that such a set exists if X is quasi-reflexive and non-separable; if X is additionally super-reflexive then one can have ||x-y|| ≥ slant 1 + ε for some ε > 0 that depends only on X. If K is a non-metrisable compact, Hausdorff space, then the unit sphere of X = C(K) also contains such a subset; if moreover K is perfectly...

Let X be a Banach space, $B\subset B_{X*}$ a norming set and (X,B) the topology on X of pointwise convergence on B. We study the following question: given two (non-negative, countably additive and finite) measures μ₁ and μ₂ on Baire(X,w) which coincide on Baire(X,(X,B)), does it follow that μ₁ = μ₂? It turns out that this is not true in general, although the answer is affirmative provided that both μ₁ and μ₂ are convexly τ-additive (e.g. when X has the Pettis Integral Property). For a Banach space Y not containing...

We prove that the dual unit ball of a Banach space X is a Corson compactum provided that the dual unit ball with respect to every equivalent norm on X is a Valdivia compactum. As a corollary we show that the dual unit ball of a Banach space X of density ${\aleph }_1$ is Corson if (and only if) X has a projectional resolution of the identity with respect to every equivalent norm. These results answer questions asked by M. Fabian, G. Godefroy and V. Zizler and yield a converse to Amir-Lindenstrauss’ theorem.

Let X be a Banach space. The property (∗) “the unit ball of X belongs to Baire(X, weak)” holds whenever the unit ball of X* is weak*-separable; on the other hand, it is also known that the validity of (∗) ensures that X* is weak*-separable. In this paper we use suitable renormings of ${\ell }^{\infty }\left(\mathbb{N}\right)$ and the Johnson-Lindenstrauss spaces to show that (∗) lies strictly between the weak*-separability of X* and that of its unit ball. As an application, we provide a negative answer to a question raised by K. Musiał....

σ-Asplund generated Banach spaces are used to give new characterizations of subspaces of weakly compactly generated spaces and to prove some results on Radon-Nikodým compacta. We show, typically, that in the framework of weakly Lindelöf determined Banach spaces, subspaces of weakly compactly generated spaces are the same as σ-Asplund generated spaces. For this purpose, we study relationships between quantitative versions of Asplund property, dentability, differentiability, and of weak compactness...

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B30, 46B03.It is shown that most of the well known classes of nonseparable Banach spaces related to the weakly compact generating can be characterized by elementary properties of the closure of the coefficient space of Markusevic bases for such spaces. In some cases, such property is then shared by all Markusevic bases in the space.

We prove that there exist weakly countably determined spaces of complexity higher than coanalytic. On the other hand, we also show that coanalytic sets can be characterized by the existence of a cofinal adequate family of closed sets. Therefore the Banach spaces constructed by means of these families have at most coanalytic complexity.