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Author(s): Jan Rychtár
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 2259-2266.
MSC (2000): Primary 46B03, 46B26, 46E05
Posted: March 4, 2005
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Abstract: It is shown that some properties of compact spaces

, such as carrying a strictly positive measure or being descriptive, are closely related to renormings of

, respectively, by pointwise uniformly rotund norms.

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Jan Rychtár
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G1
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27402
Email: jrychtar@math.ualberta.ca, rychtar@uncg.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-05-07984-0
PII: S 0002-9939(05)07984-0
Keywords: Pointwise uniformly rotund norm, strictly positive measure, uniform Eberlein compacts, descriptive compacts, fragmentability
Received by editor(s): March 25, 2003
Posted: March 4, 2005
Additional Notes: This research was supported by NSERC 7926, FS Chia Ph.D. Scholarship for 2002/2003 and GAUK 277/2001, written as part of the author's Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Professor N. Tomczak-Jaegermann and Professor V. Zizler
Communicated by: Jonathan M. Borwein
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.

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