This is an announcement for the paper "A c_0-saturated Banach space with no long unconditional basic sequences" by Jordi Lopez Abad and Stevo Todorcevic.

Abstract: We present a Banach space $\mathfrak X$ with a Schauder basis of length $\omega_1$ which is saturated by copies of $c_0$ and such that for every closed decomposition of a closed subspace $X=X_0\oplus X_1$, either $X_0$ or $X_1$ has to be separable. This can be considered as the non-separable counterpart of the notion of hereditarily indecomposable space. Indeed, the subspaces of $\mathfrak X$ have ``few operators'' in the sense that every bounded operator $T:X \rightarrow \mathfrak{X}$ from a subspace $X$ of $\mathfrak{X}$ into $\mathfrak{X}$ is the sum of a multiple of the inclusion and a $\omega_1$-singular operator, i.e., an operator $S$ which is not an isomorphism on any non-separable subspace of $X$. We also show that while $\mathfrak{X}$ is not distortable (being $c_0$-saturated), it is arbitrarily $\omega_1$-distortable in the sense that for every $\lambda>1$ there is an equivalent norm $||\cdot ||$ on $\mathfrak{X}$ such that for every non-separable subspace $X$ of $\mathfrak{X}$ there are $x,y\in S_X$ such that $||\cdot || / ||\cdot ||\ge \la$.

Archive classification: Functional Analysis; Logic

Mathematics Subject Classification: MSC Primary 46B20, 03E02; Secondary 46B26, 46B28

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