A Bourgain-like property of Banach spaces with no copies of \(c_0\) (Q506275)

The authors prove that a Banach space \(X\) contains no isomorphic copy of \(c_0\) if and only if, for every bounded subset \(A\) of \(X\) and every \(\varepsilon>0\), there exist points \(x_1, \dots, x_m\) in \(A\) such that \(\bigcap_{j=1}^m (A-x_j)\cap (x_j -A)\) has diameter less than \(\varepsilon\). The authors' proof uses a sequence of indices and their quantitative results lead to a quick proof of James's theorem that a Banach space containing an isomorphic copy of \(c_0\) contains almost isometric copies of \(c_0\) and to a quick proof of a result of Bessaga and Pełczyński that, in Banach spaces containing no isomorphic copy of \(c_0\), weakly unconditionally Cauchy series are unconditionally convergent.