On metric characterizations of the Radon-Nikodým and related properties of Banach spaces (Q2874676)

The author shows (Theorem 1.10) that a dual Banach space \(X\) fails the Radon-Nikodým property (RNP) if and only if there is a bilipschitz map from the infinite diamond space to \(X\). This result is a metric characterization of the RNP for dual spaces. The proof uses Stegall's construction of a bounded \(\delta\)-tree in dual Banach spaces that fail RNP. By induction, a 1-Lipschitz embedding \(f\) of the infinite diamond space \(D_\omega\) to \(X\) is constructed and it is shown that in fact \(f\) is bilipschitz. The paper contains (Theorem 1.12) a (sub)metric characterization of Banach spaces which contain infinite bounded \(\delta\)-trees.NEWLINENEWLINE In Section 4, the author, extending and generalizing previous results of his own, shows that certain metric spaces (with thick families of geodesics between some pair of points) do not admit a bilipschitz embedding into Banach spaces with the RNP (Theorem 4.1, Theorem 4.8). It is shown that the second Laakso space satisfies the conditions of Theorem 4.1.NEWLINENEWLINE Theorems 4.1 and 4.8 are not characterizations of the RNP. It is proved in Theorem 4.9 that, for every metric space \(X\) satisfying the conditions of Theorems 4.1 or 4.8, there is a subspace (a version of \(BR\)) of \(L_1(0,1)\) which fails the RNP and does not admit a bilipschitz embedding of \(X\). (The space \(BR\) constructed by \textit{J. Bourgain} and \textit{H. P. Rosenthal} [Isr. J. Math. 37, 54--75 (1980; Zbl 0445.46015)] fails the RNP and contains no infinite bounded \(\delta\)-trees.)NEWLINENEWLINE In the last section, the author (Theorem 5.1) proves a (sub)metric characterization of reflexivity.