On strictly singular nonlinear centralizers (Q765844)

The discovery of a Banach space containing an uncomplemented Hilbert subspace whose quotient is also a Hilbert space was initially surprising. \textit{N. J. Kalton} and \textit{N. T. Peck} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 255, 1--30 (1979; Zbl 0424.46004)] placed this in context by showing that such non-trivial twisted sums exist for a large class of sequence spaces, more precisely for any solid quasi-normed \(FK\)-space whose canonical basis does not contain a subsequence equivalent to the basis of \(c_0\). This paper goes further, showing that the quotient map in many of these examples is strictly singular. Conversely, it is shown that \(c_0\) is the only Banach space with an unconditional basis which admits no non-trivial twisted sum with itself. The assumption about the basis is essential; in a recent preprint of the two first named authors, \textit{A. Aviles, M. González} and \textit{Y. Moreno} [``On separably injective Banach spaces'', \url{arXiv:1103.6064}], it is shown that \(\ell_\infty/c_0\) also does not admit a non-trivial twisted sum with itself.