This paper is concerned with the problem of best weighted simultaneous approximations to totally bounded sequences in Banach spaces. Characterization results from convex sets in Banach spaces are established under the assumption that the Banach space is uniformly smooth.

We define a Banach algebra A to be dual if A = (A∗) ∗ for a closed submodule A∗ of A∗. The class of dual Banach algebras includes all W ∗-algebras, but also all algebras M(G) for locally compact groups G, all algebras L(E) for reflexive Banach spaces E, as well as all biduals of Arens regular Banach algebras. The general impression is that amenable, dual Banach algebras are rather the exception...

We show that the centraliser of the space of n-fold symmetric injective tensors, n ≥ 2, on a real Banach space is trivial. With a geometric condition on the set of extreme points of its dual, the space of integral polynomials we obtain the same result for complex Banach spaces. We give some applications of this results to centralisers of spaces of homogeneous polynomials and complex Banach spac...

For every Banach space Z with a shrinking unconditional basis satisfying an upper p-estimate for some p > 1, an isomorphically polyhedral Banach space is constructed which has an unconditional basis and admits a quotient isomorphic to Z. It follows that reflexive Banach spaces with an unconditional basis and non-trivial type, Tsirelson's original space and (P c0) ℓp for p ∈ (1, ∞), are isomorph...

We work in the set theory without the axiom of choice: ZF. Though the Hahn-Banach theorem cannot be proved in ZF, we prove that every Gâteauxdifferentiable uniformly convex Banach space E satisfies the following continuous Hahn-Banach property: if p is a continuous sublinear functional on E, if F is a subspace of E, and if f : F → R is a linear functional such that f ≤ p|F , then there exists a...

1. Introduction and notation. In this paper the word " local " is used in at least three different meanings. Our aim is to study local Banach spaces of Fréchet or other locally convex spaces, and it turns out that it is convenient to use the local theory of Banach spaces for this purpose. Recall that given a locally convex space E and a continuous seminorm p on E the completion of the normed sp...

We prove that the dual or any quotient of a separable reflexive Banach space with the unconditional tree property has the unconditional tree property. This is used to prove that a separable reflexive Banach space with the unconditional tree property embeds into a reflexive Banach space with an unconditional basis. This solves several long standing open problems. In particular, it yields that a ...

We show that when a linear quotient map to a separable Banach space X has a Lipschitz right inverse, then it has a linear right inverse. If a separable space X embeds isometrically into a Banach space Y , then Y contains an isometric linear copy of X. This is false for every nonseparable weakly compactly generated Banach space X. Canonical examples of nonseparable Banach spaces which are Lipsch...

We extend Troitsky’s ideas on measure-free martingales on Banach lattices to martingales of operators acting between a Banach lattice and a Banach space. We prove that each norm bounded martingale of cone absolutely summing (c.a.s.) operators (also known as 1-concave operators), from a Banach lattice E to a Banach space Y , can be generated by a single c.a.s. operator. As a consequence, we obta...

We study representations of Banach algebras on reflexive Banach spaces. Algebras which admit such representations which are bounded below seem to be a good generalisation of Arens regular Banach algebras; this class includes dual Banach algebras as defined by Runde, but also all group algebras, and all discrete (weakly cancellative) semigroup algebras. Such algebras also behave in a similar way...