We give a characterization of compact spaces K such that the Banach space C(K) is isomorphic to the space c₀(Γ) for some set Γ. As an application we show that there exists an Eberlein compact space K of weight ${\omega }_{\omega }$ and with the third derived set $K^{\left(3\right)}$ empty such that the space C(K) is not isomorphic to any c₀(Γ). For this compactum K, the spaces C(K) and $c₀\left({\omega }_{\omega }\right)$ are examples of weakly compactly generated (WCG) Banach spaces which are Lipschitz isomorphic but not isomorphic.

In this short note we give a negative answer to a question of Argyros, Castillo, Granero, Jiménez and Moreno concerning Banach spaces which contain complemented and uncomplemented subspaces isomorphic to c0.

We investigate various kinds of bases in infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. In particular, we consider the complexity of Hamel bases in separable and non-separable Banach spaces and show that in a separable Banach space a Hamel basis cannot be analytic, whereas there are non-separable Hilbert spaces which have a discrete and closed Hamel basis. Further we investigate the existence of certain complete minimal systems in ${\ell }_{\infty }$ as well as in separable Banach spaces.

We show that for each natural number n > 1, it is consistent that there is a compact Hausdorff totally disconnected space $K_{2n}$ such that $C\left(K_{2n}\right)$ has no uncountable (semi)biorthogonal sequence ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of at most 2n-1 points of $K_{2n}$, but has biorthogonal systems ${(f_{\xi },{\mu }_{\xi })}_{\xi \in \omega ₁}$ where ${\mu }_{\xi }$’s are atomic measures with supports consisting of 2n points. This complements a result of Todorcevic which implies that it is consistent that such spaces do not exist: he proves that its is...

R. Deville and J. Rodríguez proved that, for every Hilbert generated space $X$, every Pettis integrable function $f:[0,1]\to X$ is McShane integrable. R. Avilés, G. Plebanek, and J. Rodríguez constructed a weakly compactly generated Banach space $X$ and a scalarly null (hence Pettis integrable) function from $[0,1]$ into $X$, which was not McShane integrable. We study here the mechanism behind the McShane integrability of scalarly negligible functions from $[0,1]$ (mostly) into $C\left(K\right)$ spaces. We focus in more detail on the behavior...

We investigate isomorphic embeddings T: C(K) → C(L) between Banach spaces of continuous functions. We show that if such an embedding T is a positive operator then K is the image of L under an upper semicontinuous set-function having finite values. Moreover we show that K has a π-base of sets whose closures are continuous images of compact subspaces of L. Our results imply in particular that if C(K) can be positively embedded into C(L) then some topological properties of L, such as countable...

We provide an alternative proof of the theorem saying that any Vašák (or, weakly countably determined) Banach space admits a full $1$-projectional skeleton. The proof is done with the use of the method of elementary submodels and is comparably simple as the proof given by W. Kubiś (2009) in case of weakly compactly generated spaces.

We show that a conjunction of Mazur and Gelfand-Phillips properties of a Banach space $E$ can be naturally expressed in terms of weak* continuity of seminorms on the unit ball of $E^{*}$. We attempt to carry out a construction of a Banach space of the form $C\left(K\right)$ which has the Mazur property but does not have the Gelfand-Phillips property. For this purpose we analyze the compact spaces on which all regular measures lie in the weak* sequential closure of atomic measures, and the set-theoretic properties of generalized...

We show several characterizations of weakly compact sets in Banach spaces. Given a bounded closed convex set C of a Banach space X, the following statements are equivalent: (i) C is weakly compact; (ii) C can be affinely uniformly embedded into a reflexive Banach space; (iii) there exists an equivalent norm on X which has the w2R-property on C; (iv) there is a continuous and w*-lower semicontinuous seminorm p on the dual X* with $p\ge su{p}_C$ such that p² is everywhere Fréchet differentiable in X*; and as a...

On every subspace of $l_{\infty }\left(\mathbb{N}\right)$ which contains an uncountable $\omega$-independent set, we construct equivalent norms whose Banach-Mazur distance is as large as required. Under Martin’s Maximum Axiom (MM), it follows that the Banach-Mazur diameter of the set of equivalent norms on every infinite-dimensional subspace of $l_{\infty }\left(\mathbb{N}\right)$ is infinite. This provides a partial answer to a question asked by Johnson and Odell.

We introduce the notions of pointwise modulus of squareness and local modulus of squareness of a normed space X. This answers a question of C. Benítez, K. Przesławski and D. Yost about the definition of a sensible localization of the modulus of squareness. Geometrical properties of the norm of X (Fréchet smoothness, Gâteaux smoothness, local uniform convexity or strict convexity) are characterized in terms of the behaviour of these moduli.

We prove that no ultraproduct of Banach spaces via a countably incomplete ultrafilter can contain c₀ complemented. This shows that a "result" widely used in the theory of ultraproducts is wrong. We then amend a number of results whose proofs have been infected by that statement. In particular we provide proofs for the following statements: (i) All M-spaces, in particular all C(K)-spaces, have ultrapowers isomorphic to ultrapowers of c₀, as also do all their complemented subspaces isomorphic to their...