Let E be a separable Banach space with the λ-bounded approximation property. We show that for each ϵ > 0 there is a Banach space F with a Schauder basis such that E is isometrically isomorphic to a 1-complemented subspace of F and, moreover, the sequence (Tₙ) of canonical projections in F has the properties $su{p}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}\left|\right|Tₙ\left|\right|\le \lambda +ϵ$ and $limsu{p}_{n\to \infty }\left|\right|Tₙ\left|\right|\le \lambda$. This is a sharp quantitative version of a classical result obtained independently by Pełczyński and by Johnson, Rosenthal and Zippin.

Suppose that $X$ and $Y$ are Banach spaces and that the Banach space $X{\widehat{\otimes }}_{\tau }Y$ is their complete tensor product with respect to some tensor product topology $\tau$. A uniformly bounded $X$-valued function need not be integrable in $X{\widehat{\otimes }}_{\tau }Y$ with respect to a $Y$-valued measure, unless, say, $X$ and $Y$ are Hilbert spaces and $\tau$ is the Hilbert space tensor product topology, in which case Grothendieck’s theorem may be applied. In this paper, we take an index $1\le p<\infty$ and suppose that $X$ and $Y$ are $L^p$-spaces with ${\tau }_p$ the associated $L^p$-tensor product...

In this survey we show that the separable quotient problem for Banach spaces is equivalent to several other problems for Banach space theory. We give also several partial solutions to the problem.

In this paper we survey some recent results concerning separating polynomials on real Banach spaces. By this we mean a polynomial which separates the origin from the unit sphere of the space, thus providing an analog of the separating quadratic form on Hilbert space.

The extension theorem of bounded, weakly compact, convex set valued and weakly countably additive measures is established through a discussion of convexity, compactness and existence of selection of the set valued measures; meanwhile, a characterization is obtained for continuous, weakly compact and convex set valued measures which can be represented by Pettis-Aumann-type integral.

Let ${}_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$ be the Banach space of all bounded and continuous functions on the closed unit ball $B_X$ of a complex Banach space X and holomorphic on the open unit ball, with sup norm, and let ${}_u\left(B_X\right)$ be the subspace of ${}_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$ of those functions which are uniformly continuous on $B_X$. A subset $B\subset B_X$ is a boundary for ${}_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$ if $\parallel f\parallel =su{p}_{x\in B}\left|f\left(x\right)\right|$ for every $f{\in }_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$. We prove that for X = d(w,1) (the Lorentz sequence space) and X = C₁(H), the trace class operators, there is a minimal closed boundary for ${}_{\infty }\left(B_X\right)$. On the other hand, for X = , the Schreier space,...

In any separable Banach space containing c 0 which admits a C k-smooth bump, every continuous function can be approximated by a C k-smooth function whose range of derivative is of the first category. Moreover, the approximation can be constructed in such a way that its derivative avoids a prescribed countable set (in particular the approximation can have no critical points). On the other hand, in a Banach space with the RNP, the range of the derivative of every smooth bounded bump contains a set...