Isomorphic universality and the number of pairwise nonisomorphic models in the class of Banach spaces (Q1722289)

Summary: We develop the framework of \textit{natural spaces} to study isomorphic embeddings of Banach spaces. We then use it to show that a sufficient failure of the generalized continuum hypothesis implies that the universality number of Banach spaces of a given density under a certain kind of positive embedding (\textit{very positive embedding}) is high. An example of a very positive embedding is a positive onto embedding between \(C(K)\) and \(C \left(L\right)\) for 0-dimensional \(K\) and \(L\) such that the following requirement holds for all \(h \neq 0\) and \(f \geq 0\) in \(C(K)\): if \(0 \leq T h \leq T f\), then there are constants \(a \neq 0\) and \(b\) with \(0 \leq a \cdot h + b \leq f\) and \(a \cdot h + b \neq 0\).