This is an announcement for the paper "A universal reflexive space for the class of uniformly convex Banach spaces" by E. Odell and Th. Schlumprecht.
Abstract: We show that there exists a separable reflexive Banach space into which every separable uniformly convex Banach space isomorphically embeds. This solves a problem of J.~Bourgain. We also give intrinsic characterizations of separable reflexive Banach spaces which embed into a reflexive space with a block $q$-Hilbertian and/or a block $p$-Besselian finite dimensional decomposition.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B03; secondary 46B20
Remarks: 13 pages, amslatex
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