We study minimality properties of partly modified mixed Tsirelson spaces. A Banach space with a normalized basis $\left(e_k\right)$ is said to be subsequentially minimal if for every normalized block basis $\left(x_k\right)$ of $\left(e_k\right)$, there is a further block basis $\left(y_k\right)$ of $\left(x_k\right)$ such that $\left(y_k\right)$ is equivalent to a subsequence of $\left(e_k\right)$. Sufficient conditions are given for a partly modified mixed Tsirelson space to be subsequentially minimal, and connections with Bourgain’s ℓ¹-index are established. It is also shown that a large class of mixed Tsirelson...

We show that any convex Jordan curve in a normed plane admits an inscribed Minkowskian square. In addition we prove that no two different Minkowskian rhombi with the same direction of one diagonal can be inscribed in the same strictly convex Jordan curve.

We consider the class of compact spaces $K_A$ which are modifications of the well known double arrow space. The space $K_A$ is obtained from a closed subset K of the unit interval [0,1] by “splitting” points from a subset A ⊂ K. The class of all such spaces coincides with the class of separable linearly ordered compact spaces. We prove some results on the topological classification of $K_A$ spaces and on the isomorphic classification of the Banach spaces $C\left(K_A\right)$.

We introduce the notion of the modulus of dentability defined for any point of the unit sphere S(X) of a Banach space X. We calculate effectively this modulus for denting points of the unit ball of the classical interpolation space $L¹+L^{\infty }.$ Moreover, a criterion for denting points of the unit ball in this space is given. We also show that none of denting points of the unit ball of $L¹+L^{\infty }$ is a LUR-point. Consequently, the set of LUR-points of the unit ball of $L¹+L^{\infty }$ is empty.

The criteria for uniform monotonicity, locally uniformly monotonicity and monotonicity of of Orlicz spaces with Luxemburg and Orlicz norms are given. The monotone coefficients of a point and of the spaces are computed.

Let c be the Banach space consisting of all convergent sequences of reals with the sup-norm, $C_{\infty }(A,c)$ the set of all bounded continuous functions f: A → c, and $C_A(X,c)$ the set of all functions f: X → c which are continuous at each point of A ⊂ X. We show that a Tikhonov subspace A of a topological space X is strong Choquet in X if there exists a monotone extender $u:C_{\infty }(A,c)\to C_A(X,c)$. This shows that the monotone extension property for bounded c-valued functions can fail in GO-spaces, which provides a negative answer to a question...

The paper deals with the properties of a monotone operator defined on a subset of an ordered Banach space. The structure of the set of fixed points between the minimal and maximal ones is described.

An important result on submajorization, which goes back to Hardy, Littlewood and Pólya, states that b ⪯ a if and only if there is a doubly stochastic matrix A such that b = Aa. We prove that under monotonicity assumptions on the vectors a and b the matrix A may be chosen monotone. This result is then applied to show that $(\widetilde{L^p},L^{\infty })$ is a Calderón couple for 1 ≤ p < ∞, where $\widetilde{L^p}$ is the Köthe dual of the Cesàro space $Ce{s}_{p^{\text{'}}}$ (or equivalently the down space $L_{\downarrow }^{p^{\text{'}}}$). In particular, $(\widetilde{L¹},L^{\infty })$ is a Calderón couple, which gives a...

This paper is an informal presentation of material from [28]–[34]. The monotone envelopes of a function, including the level function, are introduced and their properties are studied. Applications to norm inequalities are given. The down space of a Banach function space is defined and connections are made between monotone envelopes and the norms of the down space and its dual. The connection is shown to be particularly close in the case of universally rearrangement invariant spaces. Next, two equivalent...

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05D10, 46B03.Given r ∈ (1, ∞), we construct a new L∞ separable Banach space which is lr saturated.

We establish Hölder-type inequalities for Lorentz sequence spaces and their duals. In order to achieve these and some related inequalities, we study diagonal multilinear forms in general sequence spaces, and obtain estimates for their norms. We also consider norms of multilinear forms in different Banach multilinear ideals.