Non-universal families of separable Banach spaces (Q2809360)

The amalgamation theory developed by \textit{S. A. Argyros} and \textit{P. Dodos} [Adv. Math. 209, No.~2, 666--748 (2007; Zbl 1109.03047)] allows to construct non-trivial universal spaces for analytic collections of separable Banach spaces, where ``analytic'' refers to the standard Borel structure on the set of separable Banach spaces. The author has been able to complete the non-trivial task of building an isometric analogue to the Argyros-Dodos theory. In this article, he shows for instance that any analytic family which contains no isometrically universal space is contained in the collection of all subspaces of some non-isometrically universal space. A similar result is shown for strict convexity, from which in particular the following striking result follows: there exists a separable strictly convex Banach space which contains isometrically every separable uniformly convex Banach space. This follows indeed from the fact that uniform convexity is a Borel (and thus analytic) condition.