The optimality of James’s distortion theorems
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- by P. N. Dowling, W. B. Johnson, C. J. Lennard and B. Turett PDF
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Abstract:
A renorming of $\ell _{1}$, explored here in detail, shows that the copies of $\ell _{1}$ produced in the proof of the Kadec-Pełczyński theorem inside nonreflexive subspaces of $L_{1}[0,1]$ cannot be produced inside general nonreflexive spaces that contain copies of $\ell _{1}$. Put differently, James’s distortion theorem producing one-plus-epsilon-isomorphic copies of $\ell _{1}$ inside any isomorphic copy of $\ell _{1}$ is, in a certain sense, optimal. A similar renorming of $c_{0}$ shows that James’s distortion theorem for $c_{0}$ is likewise optimal.References
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Additional Information
- P. N. Dowling
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056
- Email: pndowling@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
- W. B. Johnson
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843
- MR Author ID: 95220
- Email: johnson@math.tamu.edu
- C. J. Lennard
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
- Email: chris@lennext.math.pitt.edu
- B. Turett
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309
- Email: turett@vela.acs.oakland.edu
- Received by editor(s): May 8, 1995
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 7, 1995
- Additional Notes: The second author was supported by NSF 93-06376.
The third author was partially supported by a University of Pittsburgh FAS grant. - Communicated by: Dale Alspach
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 167-174
- MSC (1991): Primary 46B03, 46B20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03537-5
- MathSciNet review: 1346969