Banach subspaces of continuous functions possessing Schauder bases (Q2413121)

A sequence \(\Lambda=(\lambda_k)\) of reals \(\geq 0\) satisfies the Müntz condition if \(\sum_k 1/\lambda_k<\infty\). Recall that this is the exact condition that the closed linear span \(M_\Lambda\) of the functions \(x^\lambda\) with \(\lambda \in \Lambda\) differs from \(C[0,1]\), that is, \(M_\Lambda\) is a proper Müntz space. One has heard it mentioned that proper Müntz spaces perhaps could house examples of Banach spaces without the approximation property. Such a hope is put to final rest by the main result of this paper: Under the Müntz and gap condition on \(\Lambda\), \(M_\Lambda\) has a Schauder basis. The gap condition is that \(\inf_k\{\lambda_{k+1}-\lambda_k\}>0\), and can be interpreted as ``the set \(\Lambda\) isn't too concentrated anywhere''. A similar basis-theorem was demonstrated by the author earlier in [ibid. 5, No. 1, Article ID 10, 14 p. (2017; Zbl 1377.46011)], in the same journal, when the Müntz space is considered in \(L_p[0,1]\), \(1 < p< \infty\). The techniques in the \(C[0,1]\)-case follow the same line, but there are also considerable differences at some stages.