This is an announcement for the paper "Big slices versus big relatively
weakly open subsets in Banach spaces" by Julio Becerra Guerrero, Gines
Lopez Perez and Abraham Rueda Zoido.
Abstract: We study the unknown differences between the size of slices
and relatively weakly open subsets of the unit ball in Banach spaces. We
show that every Banach space containing isomorphic copies of $c_0$ can be
equivalently renormed so that every slice of its unit ball has diameter 2
and satisfying that its unit ball contains nonempty relatively weakly open
subsets with diameter strictly less than 2, which answers by the negative
an open problem. As a consequence a Banach space is constructed satisfying
that every slice of its unit ball has diameter 2 and containing nonempty
relatively weakly open subsets of its unit ball with diameter arbitrarily
small, which stresses the differences between the size of slices and
relatively weakly open subsets of the unit ball of Banach spaces.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B20, 46B22
Remarks: 12 pages
Submitted from: glopezp(a)ugr.es
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1304.4397
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1304.4397
This is an announcement for the paper "Uniformly factoring weakly compact
operators" by Kevin Beanland and Daniel Freeman.
Abstract: Let $X$ and $Y$ be separable Banach spaces. Suppose $Y$ either
has a shrinking basis or $Y$ is isomorphic to $C(2^\nn)$ and $\aaa$ is
a subset of weakly compact operators from $X$ to $Y$ which is analytic
in the strong operator topology. We prove that there is a reflexive
space with a basis $Z$ such that every $T \in \aaa$ factors through
$Z$. Likewise, we prove that if $\aaa \subset \llll(X, C(2^\nn))$ is
a set of operators whose adjoints have separable range and is analytic
in the strong operator topology then there is a Banach space $Z$ with
separable dual such that every $T \in \aaa$ factors through $Z$. Finally
we prove a uniformly version of this result in which we allow the domain
and range spaces to vary.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: 19 pages, comments welcome
Submitted from: kbeanland(a)gmail.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1304.3471
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1304.3471