The uniform structure of Banach spaces

We explore the existence of uniformly continuous sections for quotient maps. Using this approach we are able to give a number of new examples in the theory of the uniform structure of Banach spaces. We show for example that there are two non-isomorphic separable ${\mathcal L_1}$ -subspaces of ? ₁ which are uniformly homeomorphic. We also prove the existence of two coarsely homeomorphic Banach spaces (i.e. with Lipschitz isomorphic nets) which are not uniformly homeomorphic (answering a question of Johnson, Lindenstrauss and Schechtman). We construct a closed subspace of L ₁ whose unit ball is not an absolute uniform retract (answering a question of the author).     

On Orlicz sequence spaces. II

Given a separable Orlicz sequence spacel _F we investigate those Orlicz sequence spacesl _f which are isomorphic to subspaces (respectively complemented subspaces) ofl _F. We give in particular an example of a reflexive Orlicz sequence space which does not contain anyl _p, 1<p<∞, as a complemented subspace.     

Existence of separable uniformly homeomorphic nonisomorphic Banach spaces

An example is given proving that there exist two separable Banach spaces which are uniformly homeomorphic but not isomorphic.     

Banach spaces determined by their uniform structures

Following results of Bourgain and Gorelik we show that the spaces _p , 1<p<, as well as some related spaces have the following uniqueness property: IfX is a Banach space uniformly homeomorphic to one of these spaces then it is linearly isomorphic to the same space. We also prove that if aC(K) space is uniformly homeomorphic toc ₀, then it is isomorphic toc ₀. We show also that there are Banach spaces which are uniformly homeomorphic to exactly 2 isomorphically distinct spaces.Dedicated to the memory of E. GorelikThe first author was an Erna and Jacob Michael Visiting Professor, The Weizmann Institute, 1994; and partially supported by NSF DMS 93-06376 and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. The second and third authors were participants in the Workshop in Linear Analysis and Probability, Texas A&M University; and were partially supported by the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation.     

On the complemented subspaces ofX p

In this paper we prove some results related to the problem of isomorphically classifying the complemented subspaces ofX _p.We characterize the complemented subspaces ofX _pwhich are isomorphic toX _pby showing that such a space must contain a canonical complemented subspace isomorphic toX _p.We also give some characterizations of complemented subspaces ofX _pisomorphic tol _p⊕l ₂. Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS 890237.     

Espaces de Banach superstables,distances stables et homeomorphismes uniformes

We introduce here the notion of superstable Banach space, as the superproperty associated with the stability property of J. L. Krivine and B. Maurey. IfE is superstable, so are theL ^p (E) for eachp∈[1, +∞[. If the Banach spaceX uniformly imbeds into a superstable Banach space, then there exists an equivalent invariant superstable distance onX; as a consequenceX contains subspaces isomorphic tol ^p spaces (for somep∈[1, ∞[). We give also a generalization of a result of P. Enflo: the unit ball ofc ₀ does not uniformly imbed into any stable Banach space.     

Uniform embeddings of metric spaces and of banach spaces into hilbert spaces

It is proved using positive definite functions that a normed spaceX is unifomly homeomorphic to a subset of a Hilbert space, if and only ifX is (linearly) isomorphic to a subspace of aL ₀(μ) space (=the space of the measurable functions on a probability space with convergence in probability). As a result we get thatl _p (respectivelyL _p (0, 1)), 2<p<∞, is not uniformly embedded in a bounded subset of itself. This answers negatively the question whether every infinite dimensional Banach space is uniformly homeomorphic to a bounded subset of itself. Positive definite functions are also used to characterize geometrical properties of Banach spaces. Partially supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant MCS-79-03322. Partially supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant MCS-80-06073.     

Fixräume regulärer operatoren und ein Korovkin-Satz

S. J. Bernau has introduced the notion of an exchange subspace of an L_p-space and has shown that the range of a contractive linear projection on an L_p-space (1 ? p < ∞, p ≠ 2) is an exchange subspace. In the present paper we define this notion for real Banach lattices with order continuous norm and prove among other things that fixed spaces of special regular operators on these spaces are exchange subspaces. As application we give a Korovkin theorem for sequences of contractions on real Banach lattices with an uniformly monotone norm.     

Unconditional bases in lp⊕lq, 0 < p < q < 1

We prove that every unconditional basis of l_p⊕l_q (0 < p < q < 1) is a disjoint union of two subsequences which span subspaces isomorphic to l_p and l_q respectively. This is an extension of a similar result of EDELSTEIN and WOJTASZCZYK [3] for 1 ≦ p < q <∞.     

An extension of a result of ribe

It is proved that for every 1≦p<∞, 1≦q<∞ and for every sequence {p _n}, 1≦p _n<∞,p _n→p, the spaceX=(Σ⊕l _{p n}) _q (resp.U=(Σ⊕L _{p n}(0, 1)) _q ) is uniformly homeomorphic toX⊕l _p (resp.U⊕L _p(0, 1)). This extends Ribe’s result from the casep=1 to generalp<∞ and thus provides examples of uniformly convex, uniformly homeomorphic Banach spaces which are not Lipschitz equivalent.     

Subspaces of<Emphasis Type="Italic">l</Emphasis><Superscript>∞</Superscript> (Γ) without quasicomplements

J. Lindenstrauss proves in [L] thatc ₀(Γ) is not quasicomplemented inl ^∞(Γ) while H. P. Rosenthal in [R] proves that subspaces, whose dual balls are weak* sequentially compact and weak* separable, are quasicomplemented inl ^∞(Γ). In this note it is proved that weak* separability of the dual is the precise condition determining whether a subspace, without isomorphic copies ofl ₁ and whose dual balls are weak* sequentially compact, is quasicomplemented or not inl ^∞(Γ). Especially spaces isomorphic tol _p(Γ), for 1<p<∞, have no quasicomplements inl ^∞(Γ) if Γ is uncountable.     

Some isomorphically polyhedral orlicz sequence spaces

A Banach space is polyhedral if the unit ball of each of its finite dimensional subspaces is a polyhedron. It is known that a polyhedral Banach space has a separable dual and isc ₀-saturated, i.e., each closed infinite dimensional subspace contains an isomorph ofc ₀. In this paper, we show that the Orlicz sequence spaceh _M is isomorphic to a polyhedral Banach space if lim _t→0 M(Kt)/M(t)=∞ for someK<∞. We also construct an Orlicz sequence spaceh _M which isc ₀-saturated, but which is not isomorphic to any polyhedral Banach space. This shows that beingc ₀-saturated and having a separable dual are not sufficient for a Banach space to be isomorphic to a polyhedral Banach space.     

Property (β) and uniform quotient maps

In 1999, Bates, Johnson, Lindenstrauss, Preiss and Schechtman asked whether a Banach space that is a uniform quotient of ? _p , 1 < p ≠ 2 < ∞, must be isomorphic to a linear quotient of ? _p . We apply the geometric property (β) of Rolewicz to the study of uniform and Lipschitz quotient maps, and answer the above question positively for the case 1 < p < 2. We also give a necessary condition for a Banach space to have c ₀ as a uniform quotient.     

Fodor-type Reflection Principle and reflection of metrizability and meta-Lindelöfness

We introduce a new reflection principle which we call “Fodor-type Reflection Principle” (FRP). This principle follows from but is strictly weaker than Fleissner's Axiom R. For instance, FRP does not impose any restriction on the size of the continuum, while Axiom R implies that the continuum has size ?ℵ₂.We show that FRP implies that every locally separable countably tight topological space X is meta-Lindelöf if all of its subspaces of cardinality ?ℵ₁ are (Theorem 4.3). It follows that, under FRP, every locally (countably) compact space is metrizable if all of its subspaces of cardinality ?ℵ₁ are (Corollary 4.4). This improves a result of Balogh who proved the same assertion under Axiom R.We also give several other results in this vein, some in ZFC, others in some further extension of ZFC. For example, we prove in ZFC that if X is a locally (countably) compact space of singular cardinality in which every subspace of smaller size is metrizable then X itself is also metrizable (Corollary 5.2).     

On primary simplex spaces

We give an example of a primary separable simplex space with non-separable dual which is not isomorphic to C() or to the Poulsen simplex space A(S_p).During the preparation of this paper the author was partly supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft     

Uniform Homeomorphisms of Unit Spheres and Property H of Lebesgue–Bochner Function Spaces

Assume that the unit spheres of Banach spaces X and Y are uniformly homeomorphic.Then we prove that all unit spheres of the Lebesgue–Bochner function spaces L_p(μ, X) and L_q(μ, Y)are mutually uniformly homeomorphic where 1 ≤ p, q ∞. As its application, we show that if a Banach space X has Property H introduced by Kasparov and Yu, then the space L_p(μ, X), 1 ≤ p ∞,also has Property H.     

Algebra descent spectrum of operators

We say that a Banach space X satisfies the “descent spectrum equality” (in short, DSE) whenever, for every bounded linear operator T on X, the descent spectrum of T as an operator coincides with the descent spectrum of T as an element of the algebra of all bounded linear operators on X. We prove that the DSE is fulfilled by ℓ₁, all Hilbert spaces, and all Banach spaces which are not isomorphic to any of their proper quotients (so, in particular, by the hereditarily indecomposable Banach spaces [8]), but not by ℓ _p , for 1 < p ≤ ∞ with p ≠ 2. Actually, a Banach space is not isomorphic to any of its proper quotients if and only if it is not isomorphic to any of its proper complemented subspaces and satisfies the DSE.     

Bidual renormings of Banach spaces

Given a separable Banach space X with no isomorphic copies of ℓ₁ and a separable subspace Y of its bidual, we provide a sufficient condition on Y to ensure that X admits an equivalent norm such that the restriction to Y of the corresponding bidual norm is midpoint locally uniformly rotund. This result applies to the separable subspaces of the bidual of a Banach space with a shrinking unconditional Schauder basis and to the bidual of the James space.     

Locally Complemented Subspaces and ℒ︁p-Spaces for 0 < p < 1

We develop a theory of ??_p-spaces for 0 < p < 1, basing our definition on the concept of a locally complemented subspace of a quasi-BANACH space. Among the topics we consider are the existence of basis in ??_p-spaces, and lifting and extension properties for operators. We also give a simple construction of uncountably many separable ??_p-spaces of the form ??_p(X) where X is not a ??_p-space. We also give some applications of our theory to the spaces H_p, 0 < p < 1.