This is an announcement for the paper "On Banach spaces containing $l_p$ or $c_0$" by George Androulakis, Nigel Kalton, and Adi Tcaciuc.

Abstract: We use the Gowers block Ramsey theorem to characterize Banach spaces containing isomorphs of $\ell_p$ (for some $1 \leq p < \infty$) or $c_0$.

Archive classification: math.FA

Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B20; 46B40; 46B03

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