On certain equivalent norms on Tsirelson's space (Q1567023)

A Banach space \(X\) is arbitrarily distortable if for all \(\lambda > 1\) there is an equivalent norm \(|\cdot |\) on \(X\) such that \[ \sup \{ |y|/|z|: y,z \in S_Y \}>\lambda \quad \text{for all} \quad Y \subseteq X. \] The space \(X\) is distortable if there is a \(\lambda > 1\) and an equivalent norm \(|\cdot |\) such that the above inequality is satisfied. The authors investigate an unstudied family of renormings of Tsirelson's space \(T\). The main result is that this family of equivalent norms does not arbitrarily distort \(T\) or even any subspace of \(T\). The paper includes some stabilization results for more general norms on \(T\) of various classes and some problems.