We characterize Hilbert spaces among Banach spaces in terms of transitivity with respect to nicely behaved subgroups of the isometry group. For example, the following result is typical: If X is a real Banach space isomorphic to a Hilbert space and convex-transitive with respect to the isometric finite-dimensional perturbations of the identity, then X is already isometric to a Hilbert space.
It is shown that if a Banach space X is not isomorphic to a Hilbert space then the spaces ℓ₂(X) and Rad(X) contain a subspace Z without local unconditional structure, and therefore without an unconditional basis. Moreover, if X is of cotype r < ∞, then a subspace Z of ℓ₂(X) can be constructed without local unconditional structure but with 2-dimensional unconditional decomposition, hence also with basis.
In the theory of normed spaces, we have the concept of bounded linear functionals and dual spaces. Now, given an -normed space, we are interested in bounded multilinear -functionals and -dual spaces. The concept of bounded multilinear -functionals on an -normed space was initially intoduced by White (1969), and studied further by Batkunde et al., and Gozali et al. (2010). In this paper, we revisit the definition of bounded multilinear -functionals, introduce the concept of -dual spaces, and...