Onc 0 sequences in Banach spaces

A Banach space has property (S) if every normalized weakly null sequence contains a subsequences equivalent to the unit vector basis ofc ₀. We show that the equivalence constant can be chosen “uniformly”, i.e., independent of the choice of the normalized weakly null sequence. Furthermore we show that a Banach space with property (S) has property (u). This solves in the negative the conjecture that a separable Banach space with property (u) not containingl ₁ has a separable dual. This is part of this author's Ph.D. dissertation prepared at The University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of H. P. Rosenthal.