Hagler and the first named author introduced a class of hereditarily $l_1$ Banach spaces which do not possess the Schur property. Then the first author extended these spaces to a class of hereditarily $l_p$ Banach spaces for $1\le p<\infty$. Here we use these spaces to introduce a new class of hereditarily $l_p\left(c_0\right)$ Banach spaces analogous of the space of Popov. In particular, for $p=1$ the spaces are further examples of hereditarily $l_1$ Banach spaces failing the Schur property.

We give a characterization of conditional expectation operators through a disjointness type property similar to band-preserving operators. We say that the operator T:X→ X on a Banach lattice X is semi-band-preserving if and only if for all f, g ∈ X, f ⊥ Tg implies that Tf ⊥ Tg. We prove that when X is a purely atomic Banach lattice, then an operator T on X is a weighted conditional expectation operator if and only if T is semi-band-preserving.

We introduce and study a natural class of variable exponent ${\ell }^p$ spaces, which generalizes the classical spaces ${\ell }^p$ and c₀. These spaces will typically not be rearrangement-invariant but instead they enjoy a good local control of some geometric properties. Some geometric examples are constructed by using these spaces.

For a sequence x ∈ ℓ₁∖c₀₀, one can consider the set E(x) of all subsums of the series ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }x\left(n\right)$. Guthrie and Nymann proved that E(x) is one of the following types of sets: () a finite union of closed intervals; () homeomorphic to the Cantor set; homeomorphic to the set T of subsums of ${\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }b\left(n\right)$ where b(2n-1) = 3/4ⁿ and b(2n) = 2/4ⁿ. Denote by ℐ, and the sets of all sequences x ∈ ℓ₁∖c₀₀ such that E(x) has the property (ℐ), () and ( ), respectively. We show that ℐ and are strongly -algebrable and is -lineable. We...

We create a new family of Banach spaces, the James-Schreier spaces, by amalgamating two important classical Banach spaces: James' quasi-reflexive Banach space on the one hand and Schreier's Banach space giving a counterexample to the Banach-Saks property on the other. We then investigate the properties of these James-Schreier spaces, paying particular attention to how key properties of their 'ancestors' (that is, the James space and the Schreier space) are expressed in them. Our main results include...

The James-Schreier spaces, defined by amalgamating James' quasi-reflexive Banach spaces and Schreier space, can be equipped with a Banach-algebra structure. We answer some questions relating to their cohomology and ideal structure, and investigate the relations between them. In particular we show that the James-Schreier algebras are weakly amenable but not amenable, and relate these algebras to their multiplier algebras and biduals.

Let X denote the space of all real, bounded double sequences, and let Φ, φ, Γ be φ-functions. Moreover, let Ψ be an increasing, continuous function for u ≥ 0 such that Ψ(0) = 0.In this paper we consider some spaces of double sequences provided with two-modular structure given by generalized variations and the translation operator (...).