On complemented versions of James’s distortion theorems

Johnson, William; Randrianantoanina, Narcisse

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-07-08775-8

On complemented versions of James’s distortion theorems
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by William B. Johnson and Narcisse Randrianantoanina PDF

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 135 (2007), 2751-2757

Abstract:

Examples are given to show that two natural questions asked in Dowling, Randrianantoanina, and Turett, 1999, about complemented versions of James’s distortion theorems have negative answers.

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