Isometric uniqueness of a complementably universal Banach space for Schauder decompositions (Q380310)

A Banach space \(U\) is called complementably universal for a given class of Banach spaces provided that \(U\) is a member of this class and any space of this class is isomorphic to a complemented subspace of \(U\). The first example of a complementably universal space for the class of spaces with a basis was given by \textit{A.~Pełczyński} [Stud. Math. 32, 247--268 (1969; Zbl 0185.37401)]. This example was followed by an example of a space complementably universal for the class of Banach spaces with the bounded approximation property by \textit{M.~I.~Kadets} [Stud. Math. 40, 85--98 (1971; Zbl 0218.46015)] and a complementably universal space for the class of spaces with a finite-dimensional decomposition (FDD) by \textit{A.~Pełczyński} and \textit{P.~Wojtaszczyk} [Stud. Math. 40, 91--108 (1971; Zbl 0221.46014)]. All these spaces are isomorphic by the Pełczyński decomposition method. In the paper, an isometric version of the above spaces is presented, i.e., a Banach space \(\mathbb{P}\) such that any Banach space with a monotone FDD is isometric to a 1-complemented subspace of \(\mathbb{P}\). Again, by the Pełczyński decomposition method, the space \(\mathbb{P}\) is isomorphic to the aforementioned universal spaces. The author also proves isometric homogeneity of \(\mathbb{P}\) (i.e., that any linear isometry between any two 1-complemented finite-dimensional subspaces of \(\mathbb{P}\) extends to a bijective isometry of \(\mathbb{P}\)) and isometric uniqueness of \(\mathbb{P}\) among spaces satisfying a certain extension-type property. The construction is based on the category theory technique extensively used in the study of universal and ``homogeneous'' objects for different types of classes, as the space constructed by \textit{P.~Urysohn} [Bull. Math. (2) 51, 43--64 (1927); 51, 74--90 (1927; JFM 53.0556.01)] within the class of separable metric spaces and the space of \textit{V. I.~Gurarij} [Sib. Mat. Zh. 7, 1002--1013 (1966; Zbl 0166.39303)] in the class of separable Banach spaces, see, for example, [\textit{W.~Kubiś} and \textit{S.~Solecki}, Isr. J. Math. 195, Part A, 449--456 (2013; Zbl 1290.46010)].