The unconditional basic sequence problem
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Abstract:
We construct a Banach space that does not contain any infinite unconditional basic sequence and investigate further properties of this space. For example, it has no subspace that can be written as a topological direct sum of two infinite-dimensional spaces. This property implies that every operator on the space is a strictly singular perturbation of a multiple of the identity. In particular, it is either strictly singular or Fredholm with index zero. This implies that the space is not isomorphic to any proper subspace.References
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- © Copyright 1993 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (1993), 851-874
- MSC: Primary 46Bxx
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-1993-1201238-0
- MathSciNet review: 1201238