C.-M. Cho and W. B. Johnson showed that if a subspace E of ${\ell }_p$, 1 < p < ∞, has the compact approximation property, then K(E) is an M-ideal in ℒ(E). We prove that for every r,s ∈ ]0,1] with $r^2+s^2<1$, the James space can be provided with an equivalent norm such that an arbitrary subspace E has the metric compact approximation property iff there is a norm one projection P on ℒ(E)* with Ker P = K(E)⊥ satisfying ∥⨍∥ ≥ r∥Pf∥ + s∥φ - Pf∥ ∀⨍ ∈ ℒ(E)*. A similar result is proved for subspaces of upper p-spaces...

We construct an indecomposable reflexive Banach space $X_{ius}$ such that every infinite-dimensional closed subspace contains an unconditional basic sequence. We also show that every operator $T\in ℬ\left(X_{ius}\right)$ is of the form λI + S with S a strictly singular operator.

We consider the James and Schäffer type constants recently introduced by Takahashi. We prove an equality between James (resp. Schäffer) type constants and the modulus of convexity (resp. smoothness). By using these equalities, we obtain some estimates for the new constants in terms of the James constant. As a result, we improve an inequality between the Zbăganu and James constants.

We use Simonenko quantitative indices of an $𝒩$-function $\Phi$ to estimate two parameters $q_{\Phi }$ and $Q_{\Phi }$ in Orlicz function spaces $L^{\Phi }[0,\infty )$ with Orlicz norm, and get the following inequality: $\frac{B_{\Phi }}{B_{\Phi }-1}\le q_{\Phi }\le Q_{\Phi }\le \frac{A_{\Phi }}{A_{\phi }-1}$, where $A_{\Phi }$ and $B_{\Phi }$ are Simonenko indices. A similar inequality is obtained in $L^{\Phi }[0,1]$ with Orlicz norm.

We establish some results that concern the Cauchy-Peano problem in Banach spaces. We first prove that a Banach space contains a nontrivial separable quotient iff its dual admits a weak*-transfinite Schauder frame. We then use this to recover some previous results on quotient spaces. In particular, by applying a recent result of Hájek-Johanis, we find a new perspective for proving the failure of the weak form of Peano's theorem in general Banach spaces. Next, we study a kind of algebraic genericity...

We present an extension of the classical isomorphic classification of the Banach spaces C([0,α]) of all real continuous functions defined on the nondenumerable intervals of ordinals [0,α]. As an application, we establish the isomorphic classification of the Banach spaces $C\left(2^{}\times [0,\alpha ]\right)$ of all real continuous functions defined on the compact spaces $2^{}\times [0,\alpha ]$, the topological product of the Cantor cubes $2^{}$ with smaller than the first sequential cardinal, and intervals of ordinal numbers [0,α]. Consequently, it is relatively...

We prove that there exist constants C>0 and 0 < λ < 1 so that for all convex bodies K in ${ℝ}^n$ with non-empty interior and all integers k so that 1 ≤ k ≤ λn/ln(n+1), there exists a k-dimensional affine subspace Y of ${ℝ}^n$ satisfying $d(Y\cap K,B_2^k)\le C(1+\surd (k/ln(n/\left(kln(n+1)\right)))$. This formulation of Dvoretzky’s theorem for large dimensional sections is a generalization with a new proof of the result due to Milman and Schechtman for centrally symmetric convex bodies. A sharper estimate holds for the n-dimensional simplex.

For 1 ≤ q < ∞, let ${}_q\left(\right)$ denote the Banach algebra consisting of the bounded complex-valued functions on the unit circle having uniformly bounded q-variation on the dyadic arcs. We describe a broad class ℐ of UMD spaces such that whenever X ∈ ℐ, the sequence space ℓ²(ℤ,X) admits the classes ${}_q\left(\right)$ as Fourier multipliers, for an appropriate range of values of q > 1 (the range of q depending on X). This multiplier result expands the vector-valued Marcinkiewicz Multiplier Theorem in the direction q >...

Let E be a Banach space with a separable dual. Zippin’s theorem asserts that E embeds in a Banach space $E_1$ with a shrinking basis, and W. J. Davis, T. Figiel, W. B. Johnson and A. Pełczyński have shown that E is a quotient of a Banach space $E_2$ with a shrinking basis. These two results use the interpolation theorem established by W. J. Davis, T. Figiel, W. B. Johnson and A. Pełczyński. Here, we prove that the Szlenk indices of $E_1$ and $E_2$ can be controlled by the Szlenk index of E, where the Szlenk index...

The aim of our present note is to show the strength of the existence of an equivalent analytic renorming of a Banach space, even compared to C∞-Fréchet smooth renormings. It was Haydon who first showed in [8] that C(K) spaces for K countable admit an equivalent C∞-Fréchet smooth norm. Later, in [7] and [9] he introduced a large clams of tree-like (uncountable) compacts K for which C(K) admits an equivalent C∞-Fréchet smooth norm. Recently, it was shown in [3] that C(K) spaces for K countable admit...