Ball versus distance convexity of metric spaces.
We prove that any Baire-one usco-bounded function from a metric space to a closed convex subset of a Banach space is the pointwise limit of a usco-bounded sequence of continuous functions.
For a countable ordinal α we denote by the class of separable, reflexive Banach spaces whose Szlenk index and the Szlenk index of their dual are bounded by α. We show that each admits a separable, reflexive universal space. We also show that spaces in the class embed into spaces of the same class with a basis. As a consequence we deduce that each is analytic in the Effros-Borel structure of subspaces of C[0,1].
For every α < ω₁ we establish the existence of a separable Banach space whose Szlenk index is and which is universal for all separable Banach spaces whose Szlenk index does not exceed . In order to prove that result we provide an intrinsic characterization of which Banach spaces embed into a space admitting an FDD with Tsirelson type upper estimates.
Concepts, definitions, notions, and some facts concerning the Banach-Mazur game are customized to a more general setting of partial orderings. It is applied in the theory of Fraïssé limits and beyond, obtaining simple proofs of universality of certain objects and classes.
A topological space is called base-base paracompact (John E. Porter) if it has an open base such that every base has a locally finite subcover . It is not known if every paracompact space is base-base paracompact. We study subspaces of the Sorgenfrey line (e.g. the irrationals, a Bernstein set) as a possible counterexample.
Via the Bousfield-Gugenheim realization functor, and starting from the Brown-Szczarba model of a function space, we give a functorial framework to describe basic objects and maps concerning the rational homotopy type of function spaces and its path components.
Let be a smooth Riemannian manifold of finite volume, its Laplace (-Beltrami) operator. Canonical direct-sum decompositions of certain subspaces of the Wiener and Royden algebras of are found, and for biharmonic functions (those for which ) the decompositions are related to the values of the functions and their Laplacians on appropriate ideal boundaries.
In recent work we have shown that the reformulation of the classical Bell inequalities into the context of fuzzy probability calculus leads to related inequalities on the commutative conjunctor used for modelling pointwise fuzzy set intersection. Also, an important role has been attributed to commutative quasi-copulas. In this paper, we consider these new Bell-type inequalities for continuous t-norms. Our contribution is twofold: first, we prove that ordinal sums preserve these Bell-type inequalities;...