Genus \(n\) Banach spaces (Q1300132): Difference between revisions

A Banach space is said to be of genus \(n\) if it and all its complemented subspaces with unconditional bases have a unique normalized unconditional basis and there are exactly \(n\) different complemented subspaces with unconditional bases, up to isomorphism. (1) It is shown that the problem of classifying genus \(n\) spaces reduces to classifying the unconditionally primary genus \(n\) spaces. These latter spaces are characterized as those which contain a complemented subspace of genus \(n-1\). Thus the backbone of the classification problem is really the genus 2 case; but even genus 2 spaces are unclassified, although the conjecture is that they are precisely those listed in an Appendix to the paper. (2) All Banach spaces with finite genus have the property that any subsequence of the original basis must contain a further subsequence equivalent to the unit basis of \(c_0, \ell_1\) or \(\ell_2\). (3) It is enough to consider the ``\(c_0\) case''. Decomposition of genus 2 spaces containing \(c_0\) is discussed. (4) An appendix gives a conjectured list of all genus \(n\) spaces for \(1\leq n \leq 6.\)