No label defined (Q4942993)

The author gives a short elementary proof of the famous Eberlein-Shmulyan theorem by a method that also established several characterizations of reflexivity of Banach spaces. The author proves that each of the following is a necessary and sufficient condition for a Banach space \(X\) to be reflexive: (i) The unit ball of \(X\) is weakly compact. (ii) The unit ball of \(X^*\) is weak-star compact. (iii) It is not true that, if \(0<\theta<1\), then there is a sequence \(\{(x_n,x^*_n)\}\) for which each \(x_n\) is in the unit ball of \(X\), each \(x^*_n\) is in the unit ball of \(X^*\), \(x_i^*(x_j)=\theta\) if \(i\leq j\), and \(x_i^*(x_j)=0\) if \(i>j\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00093].