A weak Asplund space whose dual is not in Stegall's class

We show that, under some additional set-theoretical assumptions which are equiconsistent with the existence of a measurable cardinal, there is a weak Asplund space whose dual, equipped with the weak* topology, is not in Stegall's class. This completes a result by Kenderov, Moors and Sciffer.

     

On subclasses of weak Asplund spaces

Assuming the consistency of the existence of a measurable cardinal, it is consistent to have two Banach spaces, , where is a weak Asplund space such that (in the weak* topology) in not in Stegall's class, whereas is in Stegall's class but is not weak* fragmentable.

     

A Gâteaux differentiability space that is not weak Asplund

In this paper we construct a Gâteaux differentiability space that is not a weak Asplund space. Thus we answer a question raised by David Larman and Robert Phelps from 1979.

     

A weakly Stegall space that is not a Stegall space

A topological space is said to belong to the class of Stegall (weakly Stegall) spaces if for every Baire (complete metric) space and minimal usco , is single-valued at some point of . In this paper we show that under some additional set-theoretic assumptions that are equiconsistent with the existence of a measurable cardinal there is a Banach space whose dual, equipped with the weak topology, is in the class of weakly Stegall spaces but not in the class of Stegall spaces. This paper also contains an example of a compact space such that belongs to the class of weakly Stegall spaces but does not.

     

The product of a Baire space with a hereditarily Baire metric space is Baire

In this paper we prove that the product of a Baire space with a metrizable hereditarily Baire space is again a Baire space. This answers a recent question of J. Chaber and R. Pol.

     

A continuum whose hyperspace of subcontinua is not its continuous image

We construct a metric continuum such that the hyperspace of subcontinua, , of is not a continuous image of . This answers a question by I. Krzeminska and J. R. Prajs.

     

Complete minimal hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space with vanishing Gauss-Kronecker curvature

We investigate 3-dimensional complete minimal hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space with Gauss-Kronecker curvature identically zero. More precisely, we give a classification of complete minimal hypersurfaces with Gauss-Kronecker curvature identically zero, a nowhere vanishing second fundamental form and a scalar curvature bounded from below.

     

Asplund sets, differentiability and subdifferentiability of functions in Banach spaces

We show that Asplund sets are effective tools to study differentiability of Lipschitz functions, and ε-subdifferentiability of lower semicontinuous functions on general Banach spaces. If a locally Lipschitz function defined on an Asplund generated space has a minimal Clarke subdifferential mapping, then it is TBY-uniformly strictly differentiable on a dense Gδ subset of X. Examples are given of locally Lipschitz functions that are TBY-uniformly strictly differentiable everywhere, but nowhere Fréchet differentiable.