COARSE AND UNIFORM EMBEDDINGS INTO REFLEXIVE SPACES

Answering an old problem in nonlinear theory, we show that c₀cannot be coarsely or uniformly embedded into a reflexive Banachspace, but that any stable metric space can be coarsely anduniformly embedded into a reflexive space. We also show thatcertain quasi-reflexive spaces (such as the James space) alsocannot be coarsely embedded into a reflexive space and thatthe unit ball of these spaces cannot be uniformly embedded intoa reflexive space. We give a necessary condition for a metricspace to be coarsely or uniformly embeddable in a uniformlyconvex space.