Light groups of isomorphisms of Banach spaces and invariant LUR renormings (Q2305322)

In the paper under review, the authors study the lightness (the equivalence between weak convergence and convergence) of a group of isomorphisms on a Banach space in relation with different properties like PCP (point of continuity property) and LUR (locally uniformly rotund) renormings. Let \(X\) be a Banach space, \(L(X)\) -- the set of bounded linear operators, \(\mathrm{GL}(X) = L(X)^\times\) -- the group of bounded isomorphisms of \(X\), a subgroup \(G \subseteq \mathrm{GL}(X)\) is \textit{light} if on \(G\) the weak operator topology and the strong operator topology are equivalent, for example the group \(U(H)\) of unitary operators on a Hilbert space \(H\) is light. A Banach space \(X\) has the point of continuity property (PCP) if on every bounded nonempty set \(C \subseteq X\) the identity operator has a point of comtinuity from the weak topology to the norm topology. In that case any bounded in norm subgroup \(G \subseteq \mathrm{GL}(X)\) is light [\textit{M. G. Megrelishvili}, in: Nuclear groups and Lie groups. Selected lectures of the workshop, Madrid, Spain, September 1999. Lemgo: Heldermann Verlag. 197--208 (2001; Zbl 1026.46009)], in particular if \(X\) has the Radon-Nikodym property (RNP) then every bounded subgroup of \(\mathrm{GL}(X)\) is light. The authors show in Theorem 4.6 that any separable space containing an isomorphic copy of \(c_0\) of vanishing at infinity sequences admits a nonlight bounded cyclic group of isomorphisms. A norm of a Banach space \(X\) is \textit{strictly convex} or \textit{rotund} if on the unit sphere \(S_X\) from \(||x+y|| =2\) one deduces \(x=y\), and it is locally uniformly convex (LUC) or locally uniformly rotund (LUR) at a vector \(x_0 \in X\) if for any sequence \(\{x_n\}_{n\in\mathbb N}\), \(\lim_n ||x_n|| = ||x_0||\) and \(\lim_n ||x_0 + x_n|| = 2||x_0||\) one deduces that \(\lim||x_n -x_0|| = 0\) in \(X\), All (real) separable Banach spaces admit an equivalent LUR renorming. If \(X\) is a separable Banach space with the RNP, then it admits an isometry invariant LUR renorming [\textit{G. Lancien}, Rocky Mt. J. Math. 23, No. 2, 635--647 (1993; Zbl 0801.46010)]. The authors prove that if a Banach space \(X\) admits a \(G\)-invariant LUR renorming, then \(G\) is light (Theorem 2.3). The authors also proved that the isometry groups of the quasinormed spaces \(\ell_p\) and \(L_p[0,1], 0< p <1\) are light (Proposition 7.1).