By a ball-covering of a Banach space X, we mean a collection of open balls off the origin in X and whose union contains the unit sphere of X; a ball-covering is called minimal if its cardinality ${}^{}$ is smallest among all ball-coverings of X. This article, through establishing a characterization for existence of a ball-covering in Banach spaces, shows that for every n ∈ ℕ with k ≤ n there exists an n-dimensional space admitting a minimal ball-covering of n + k balls. As an application, we give a new...

We say that a function from $X=C^L[0,1]$ is k-convex (for k ≤ L) if its kth derivative is nonnegative. Let P denote a projection from X onto V = Πₙ ⊂ X, where Πₙ denotes the space of algebraic polynomials of degree less than or equal to n. If we want P to leave invariant the cone of k-convex functions (k ≤ n), we find that such a demand is impossible to fulfill for nearly every k. Indeed, only for k = n-1 and k = n does such a projection exist. So let us consider instead a more general “shape” to preserve....

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...