Throughout [this paper], E and F will denote Banach spaces. The bounded weak topology on a Banach space E, noted bw(E) or simply bw, is defined as the finest topology that agrees with the weak topology on bounded sets. It is proved in [3] that bw(E) is a locally convex topology if and only if E is reflexive.In this paper we introduce the compact weak topology on a Banach space E, noted kw(E) or simply kw, as the finest topology that agrees with the weak topology on weakly compact subsets. Equivalently,...

We show that if X is an infinite-dimensional Banach space in which every finite-dimensional subspace is λ-complemented with λ ≤ 2 then X is (1 + C√(λ-1))-isomorphic to a Hilbert space, where C is an absolute constant; this estimate (up to the constant C) is best possible. This answers a question of Kadets and Mityagin from 1973. We also investigate the finite-dimensional versions of the theorem.

We show that in Orlicz spaces equipped with Luxemburg norm and Orlicz norm, the RNP, CCP, PCP and CPCP are equivalent.

Let X, Y be two Banach spaces. We say that Y is a quasi-quotient of X if there is a continuous operator R: X → Y such that its range, R(X), is dense in Y. Let X be a nonseparable Banach space, and let U, W be closed subspaces of X and Y, respectively. We prove that if X has the Controlled Separable Projection Property (CSPP) (this is a weaker notion than the WCG property) and Y is a quasi-quotient of X, then the structure of Y resembles the structure of a separable Banach space: (a) Y/W is norm-separable...

We study when the Daugavet equation is satisfied for weakly compact polynomials on a Banach space X, i.e. when the equality ||Id + P|| = 1 + ||P|| is satisfied for all weakly compact polynomials P: X → X. We show that this is the case when X = C(K), the real or complex space of continuous functions on a compact space K without isolated points. We also study the alternative Daugavet equation $ma{x}_{\left|\omega \right|=1}\left|\right|Id+\omega P\left|\right|=1+\left|\right|P\left|\right|$ for polynomials P: X → X. We show that this equation holds for every polynomial on the complex space X =...

Let G be an infinite, compact abelian group and let Λ be a subset of its dual group Γ. We study the question which spaces of the form $C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ or $L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ and which quotients of the form $C\left(G\right)/C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ or $L¹\left(G\right)/L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ have the Daugavet property. We show that $C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ is a rich subspace of C(G) if and only if $\Gamma \setminus {\Lambda }^{-1}$ is a semi-Riesz set. If $L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ is a rich subspace of L¹(G), then $C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ is a rich subspace of C(G) as well. Concerning quotients, we prove that $C\left(G\right)/C_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ has the Daugavet property if Λ is a Rosenthal set, and that $L{¹}_{\Lambda }\left(G\right)$ is a poor subspace of L¹(G) if Λ is...

In this paper we modify a construction due to J. Taskinen to get a Fréchet space F which satisfies the density condition such that the complete injective tensor product l2 x~eF'b does not satisfy the strong dual density condition of Bierstedt and Bonet. In this way a question that remained open in Heinrichs (1997) is solved.

Given a Banach space X and a subspace Y, the pair (X,Y) is said to have the approximation property (AP) provided there is a net of finite rank bounded linear operators on X all of which leave the subspace Y invariant such that the net converges uniformly on compact subsets of X to the identity operator. In particular, if the pair (X,Y) has the AP then X, Y, and the quotient space X/Y have the classical Grothendieck AP. The main result is an easy to apply dual formulation of this property. Applications...

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.

The dual of the James tree space is asymptotically uniformly convex.

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.