This is an announcement for the paper "Banach spaces with projectional skeletons" by Wieslaw Kubis.

Abstract: A projectional skeleton in a Banach space is a sigma-directed family of projections onto separable subspaces, covering the entire space. The class of Banach spaces with projectional skeletons is strictly larger than the class of Plichko spaces (i.e. Banach spaces with a countably norming Markushevich basis). We show that every space with a projectional skeleton has a projectional resolution of the identity and has a norming space with similar properties to Sigma-spaces. We characterize the existence of a projectional skeleton in terms of elementary substructures, providing simple proofs of known results concerning weakly compactly generated spaces and Plichko spaces. We prove a preservation result for Plichko Banach spaces, involving transfinite sequences of projections. As a corollary, we show that a Banach space is Plichko if and only if it has a commutative projectional skeleton.

Archive classification: math.FA math.GN

Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B26; 46B03; 46E15; 54C35

Remarks: 30 pages (including index and toc), submitted

The source file(s), projs_survey-ver2e.bbl: 7090 bytes

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