Unconditional basis and Gordon-Lewis constants for spaces of polynomials (Q5937642)

Using the Gordon-Lewis property the authors study unconditional bases of symmetric tensor products of order \(m\) in Banach spaces. It follows that for each Banach space \(X\) which has a dual with an unconditional basis \((x_i^\ast)\), the spaces of approximable or nuclear \(m\)-homogeneous polynomials on \(X\) have an unconditional basis iff the monomial basis with respect to \((x_i^\ast)\) is unconditional. Moreover, the authors determine for fixed \(m\) the asymptotic order in \(n\) of the unconditional basis constant of \({\mathcal P}(^m\ell^n_p)\) and use this result to norrow down considerably the list of infinite dimensional Banach spaces \(X\) with the property that \({\mathcal P}(^mX)\) has an unconditional basis for \(m \geq 2\), e.g. super-reflexive spaces and the original Tsirelson space \(T^\ast\) have not this property. It follows also that for \(m \geq 2\) there is no infinite dimensional Banach space \(X\) such that \({\mathcal P}(^mX)\) and \({\mathcal P}(^mX^\ast)\) have simultaneously unconditional basis. The paper includes all proofs.