Köthe-Bochner function spaces

Vector-valued set functions, measures and integrals (28B05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to functional analysis (46-02) Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Radon-Nikodým, Kre?n-Milman and related properties (46B22) Spaces of operators; tensor products; approximation properties (46B28) Banach lattices (46B42) Spaces of measurable functions ((L^p)-spaces, Orlicz spaces, Köthe function spaces, Lorentz spaces, rearrangement invariant spaces, ideal spaces, etc.) (46E30) Spaces of vector- and operator-valued functions (46E40)

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This book, though somewhat restrictively entitled, gives in fact an exhaustive and very up-to-date account of several aspects of the general theory (isomorphic) and geometry of Banach spaces. The first chapter, entitled `Classical Theorems', is the largest one and collects an assortment of results, mostly with proofs. These include James' characterization of weakly compact sets, aspects of the Dunford-Pettis property and the Pełczyński property \((V^\ast)\). The paper of \textit{B. Sims} and \textit{D. Yost} [Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc. 32, 53--57 (1989; Zbl 0648.46004)] that gives a proof of the Heinrich-Mankiewicz theorem (Theorem 1.7.9) without using model theory, is missing from the list of references. Also missing are the references pertaining to the properties considered in Sections 6 and 7 for \(C^\ast\)-algebras and other structures (though some references to function algebras are given), see \textit{H. Pfitzner} [Math. Ann. 298, 349--371 (1994; Zbl 0791.46035)] and [Stud. Math. 104, 91--98 (1993; Zbl 0815.46020)]. Results related to Proposition 1.8.7 are contained in the reviewer's paper [\textit{T. S. S. R. K. Rao}, Rocky Mt. J. Math. 31, 595--609 (2001; Zbl 0988.46012)]. A brief account of convex and smooth renormings is given in Chapter 2. This chapter touches upon some of the important results that have been discovered since the mid 1990's (the well-known monograph by \textit{R. Deville}, \textit{G. Godefroy} and \textit{V. Zizler} [Smoothness and renormings in Banach spaces (1993; Zbl 0782.46019)] has a comprehensive account of renorming results till the 1990's). The results covered here include Odell and Schlumprecht's theorem (for some reason called Schlumprecht and Odell, in the Introduction) on equivalent \(2R\) renorming of any separable real reflexive Banach space. Köthe-Bochner function spaces \(E(X)\) are considered in Chapter 3. The first three sections cover some basic material on Banach lattices, vector measures and integration. These results are then used to establish several isomorphic stability properties of \(E(X)\). For example, \(E(X)\) has the Radon-Nikodým property (RNP) if and only if both \(E\) and \(X\) have. The next two chapters continue to deal with both geometric and isomorphic stability properties for \(E(X)\). To give a sample of each kind, (1) when \(E\) is an order continuous Köthe function space over a complete measure space, a unit vector \(f \in E(X)\) is a strongly exposed point of the unit ball if \(\| f(.)\| _{X}\) is a strongly exposed point of the unit ball of \(E\) and for almost all \(t \in \text{supp}\,f\),\(\frac{f(t)}{\| f(t)\| _{X}}\) is a strongly exposed point of the unit ball of \(X\), (2) \((E(X))^\ast\) contains a copy of \(c_0\) if and only if either \(E^\ast\) or \(X^\ast\) contains a copy of \(c_0\). The last chapter deals with stability aspects for the vector-valued continuous function space \(C(K,X)\). One of the main results here is that \(C(K,X)\) has the hereditary Dunford-Pettis property if and only if \(X\) has and \(K\) is dispersed and the \(\omega\)-derived set of \(K\) is empty (hence \(C(K)\) has the hereditary Dunford-Pettis property). Stability aspects of general injective tensor product spaces are not considered. A recent result of Bu and Diestel that the projective tensor product space \(E\otimes^{\wedge} X\) has the RNP when \(E\) is a separable reflexive Köthe function space over a finite measure space and \(X\) has the RNP is also included. For more recent information on stability aspects for projective tensor products, see [\textit{Q. Bu}, \textit{J. Diestel}, \textit{P. Dowling} and \textit{E. Oja}, Ill. J. Math. 47, 1303--1326 (2003; Zbl 1039.46053)]. This book is self-contained with an exhaustive list of references at the end of each chapter. Apart from well thought-out exercises at the end of each section, the `Notes and Remarks' section at the end of each chapter contains several open questions with additional comments and references. This book is worth having on the shelves of anyone interested in Banach space theory. I thoroughly enjoyed going through it.

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