We say that a collection $𝒜$ of subsets of $X$ has property $\left(CC\right)$ if there is a set $D$ and point-countable collections $𝒞$ of closed subsets of $X$ such that for any $A\in 𝒜$ there is a finite subcollection $ℱ$ of $𝒞$ such that $A=D\setminus \bigcup ℱ$. Then we prove that any compact space is Corson if and only if it has a point-$\sigma$-$\left(CC\right)$ base. A characterization of Corson compacta in terms of (strong) point network is also given. This provides an answer to an open question in “A Biased View of Topology as a Tool in Functional Analysis” (2014) by...

In this paper we make use of a new concept of φ-stability for Banach spaces, where φ is a function. If a Banach space X and the function φ satisfy some natural conditions, then X is saturated with subspaces that are φ-stable (cf. Lemma 2.1 and Corollary 7.8). In a φ-stable Banach space one can easily construct basic sequences which have a property P(φ) defined in terms of φ (cf. Theorem 4.5). This leads us, for appropriate functions φ, to new results on the existence of unconditional...

We show that if $P_k$ is a boundedly complete, unconditional Schauder decomposition of a Banach space X, then X is weakly sequentially complete whenever $P_{k}X$ is weakly sequentially complete for each k ∈ ℕ. Then through semi-embeddings, we give a new proof of Lewis’s result: if one of Banach spaces X and Y has an unconditional basis, then X ⊗̂ Y, the projective tensor product of X and Y, is weakly sequentially complete whenever both X and Y are weakly sequentially complete.

The aim of the paper is two-fold. First, we investigate the ψ-Bessel potential spaces on ${ℝ}_{0+}^{n+1}$ and study some of their properties. Secondly, we consider the fractional powers of an operator of the form $-A_{\pm }=-\psi \left(D_{x^{\text{'}}}\right)\pm \partial /\left(\partial x_{n+1}\right)$, $(x^{\text{'}},x_{n+1})\in {ℝ}_{0+}^{n+1}$, where $\psi \left(D_{x^{\text{'}}}\right)$ is an operator with real continuous negative definite symbol ψ: ℝⁿ → ℝ. We define the domain of the operator $-{(-A_{\pm })}^{\alpha }$ and prove that with this domain it generates an $L_p$-sub-Markovian semigroup.

Suppose that $X$ and $Y$ are Banach spaces and that the Banach space $X{\widehat{\otimes }}_{\tau }Y$ is their complete tensor product with respect to some tensor product topology $\tau$. A uniformly bounded $X$-valued function need not be integrable in $X{\widehat{\otimes }}_{\tau }Y$ with respect to a $Y$-valued measure, unless, say, $X$ and $Y$ are Hilbert spaces and $\tau$ is the Hilbert space tensor product topology, in which case Grothendieck’s theorem may be applied. In this paper, we take an index $1\le p<\infty$ and suppose that $X$ and $Y$ are $L^p$-spaces with ${\tau }_p$ the associated $L^p$-tensor product...

In this article, the separability of real normed spaces and its properties are mainly formalized. In the first section, it is proved that a real normed subspace is separable if it is generated by a countable subset. We used here the fact that the rational numbers form a dense subset of the real numbers. In the second section, the basic properties of the separable normed spaces are discussed. It is applied to isomorphic spaces via bounded linear operators and double dual spaces. In the last section,...

In this survey we show that the separable quotient problem for Banach spaces is equivalent to several other problems for Banach space theory. We give also several partial solutions to the problem.

We simplify the presentation of the method of elementary submodels and we show that it can be used to simplify proofs of existing separable reduction theorems and to obtain new ones. Given a nonseparable Banach space X and either a subset A ⊂ X or a function f defined on X, we are able for certain properties to produce a separable subspace of X which determines whether A or f has the property in question. Such results are proved for properties of sets: of being dense, nowhere dense, meager, residual...

We prove that the unit sphere of every infinite-dimensional Banach space X contains an α-separated sequence, for every $0<\alpha <1+\delta {̅}_X\left(1\right)$, where $\delta {̅}_X$ denotes the modulus of asymptotic uniform convexity of X.

We give a characterization of uniformly convex Banach spaces in terms of a uniform version of the Kadec-Klee property. As an application we prove that if (xₙ) is a bounded sequence in a uniformly convex Banach space X which is ε-separated for some 0 < ε ≤ 2, then for all norm one vectors x ∈ X there exists a subsequence $\left(x_{n_j}\right)$ of (xₙ) such that $in{f}_{j\ne k}\left|\right|x-(x_{n_j}-x_{n_k})\left|\right|\ge 1+{\delta }_X(2/3\epsilon )$, where ${\delta }_X$ is the modulus of convexity of X. From this we deduce that the unit sphere of every infinite-dimensional uniformly convex Banach space contains...

In this paper we survey some recent results concerning separating polynomials on real Banach spaces. By this we mean a polynomial which separates the origin from the unit sphere of the space, thus providing an analog of the separating quadratic form on Hilbert space.

Complete and σ-complete Boolean algebras of projections acting in a Banach space were introduced by W. Bade in the 1950's. A basic fact is that every complete Boolean algebra of projections is necessarily a closed set for the strong operator topology. Here we address the analogous question for σ-complete Boolean algebras: are they always a sequentially closed set for the strong operator topology? For the atomic case the answer is shown to be affirmative. For the general case, we develop criteria...