Quantification of the Banach-Saks property (Q2261945)

A subset \(A\) of a Banach space is said to be a \textit{Banach-Saks set} if each sequence in \(A\) has a Cesàro convergent subsequence. A Banach space \(X\) is said to have the \textit{(weak) Banach-Saks property} if its closed unit ball is a Banach-Saks set (respectively, if any weakly compact subset of \(X\) is a Banach-Saks set). The paper considers quantifications of these two properties. For Banach-Saks and weak Banach-Saks operators, this has been done in a series of recent papers by \textit{A. Kryczka} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 136, No. 10, 3529--3537 (2008; Zbl 1160.46014); Integral Equations Oper. Theory 61, No. 4, 559--572 (2008; Zbl 1188.46012); J. Math. Anal. Appl. 394, No. 2, 772--780 (2012; Zbl 1254.46019); ibid. 407, No. 2, 281--289 (2013; Zbl 1377.46005)]; the authors use some of the indices introduced there). Implications between several notions (as the fact that every relatively norm-compact subset of \(X\) is a Banach-Saks set, or that every Banach-Saks set is weakly Banach-Saks and relatively weakly compact) are replaced by inequalities between some of those and other indices (Theorem 3.1). It was proved in [\textit{J. Lopez-Abad} et al., J. Funct. Anal. 266, No. 4, 2251--2280 (2014; Zbl 1298.46014)] that the three following properties are equivalent for a subset \(A\) of a Banach space: (i) \(A\) is a weak Banach-Saks set, (ii) each weakly convergent sequence in \(A\) admits a uniformly weakly convergent subsequence, and (iii) no weakly convergent sequence in \(A\) generates an \(\ell_1\)-spreading model. Theorem 4.1 in the present paper quantifies those characterizations. Then the authors concentrate on the indices defined for quantifying the Banach-Saks and the weak Banach-Saks properties when applied to the closed unit ball of a Banach space. They prove a dichotomy which is an analogue of the James' distortion theorem for \(\ell_1\)-spreading models (Theorem 5.1). The paper finalizes by checking the optimality of the inequalities proved, and formulating two open problems related to this.