Some open problems on best approximation in normed linear spaces
Using some known lifting theorems we present three-space property type and permanence results; some of them seem to be new, whereas other are improvements of known facts.
It is known that if a rearrangement invariant (r.i.) space E on [0, 1] has an unconditional basis then every linear bounded operator on E is a sum of two narrow operators. On the other hand, for the classical space E = L 1[0, 1] having no unconditional basis the sum of two narrow operators is a narrow operator. We show that a Köthe space on [0, 1] having “lots” of nonnarrow operators that are sum of two narrow operators need not have an unconditional basis. However, we do not know if such an r.i....
Some properties of monotone type multivalued operators including accretive operators and the duality mapping are studied in connection with the structure of Banach spaces.
We define the ε-product of an εb-space by quotient bornological spaces and we show that if G is a Schwartz εb-space and E|F is a quotient bornological space, then their εc-product Gεc(E|F) defined in [2] is isomorphic to the quotient bornological space (GεE)|(GεF).
We establish necessary and sufficient conditions under which weak Banach-Saks operators are weakly compact (respectively, L-weakly compact; respectively, M-weakly compact). As consequences, we give some interesting characterizations of order continuous norm (respectively, reflexive Banach lattice).
It is shown that under natural assumptions, there exists a linear functional does not have supremum on a closed bounded subset. That is the James Theorem for non-convex bodies. Also, a non-linear version of the Bishop-Phelps Theorem and a geometrical version of the formula of the subdifferential of the sum of two functions are obtained.
We prove that every bounded, uniformly separated sequence in a normed space contains a “uniformly independent” subsequence (see definition); the constants involved do not depend on the sequence or the space. The finite version of this result is true for all quasinormed spaces. We give a counterexample to the infinite version in for each 0 < p < 1. Some consequences for nonstandard topological vector spaces are derived.