On quantification of weak sequential completeness

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Abstract: We consider several quantities related to weak sequential completeness of a Banach space and prove some of their properties in general and in L-embedded Banach spaces, improving in particular an inequality of G. Godefroy, N. Kalton and D. Li. We show some examples witnessing natural limits of our positive results, in particular, we construct a separable Banach space X with the Schur property that cannot be renormed to have a certain quantitative form of weak sequential completeness, thus providing a partial answer to a question of G. Godefroy.


A Banach space is weakly sequentially complete if every bounded sequence \((x_k)\) in \(X\) which weak\(^\ast\) converges to a point in \(X^{\ast\ast}\) actually converges to a point in \(X\). If \(d(\mathrm{clust}_{X^{\ast\ast}}(x_k),X)\) measures the distance from the weak\(^\ast\)-cluster points of \((x_k)\) to \(X\), and \(\delta(x_k)\) is the diameter of this set of cluster points, then being weakly sequentially complete can be rephrased as saying that \(\delta(x_k)=0\) implies that \(d(\mathrm{clust}_{X^{\ast\ast}}(x_k),X)=0\). A Banach space satisfies a quantitative version of weak sequential completeness if there is a constant \(C\) such that the inequality \[ d(\mathrm{clust}_{X^{\ast\ast}}(x_k),X) \leq C \delta(x_k) \] holds for all bounded sequences in \(X\). The authors provide an example of a weakly sequentially complete Banach space which does not satisfy this quantitive property. This example is separable, has the Schur property, and it is 1-complemented in its bidual. They also consider similar quantitive analogues of weak sequential completeness where the distance and the diameter are measured in different ways. Namely, if \(\tilde{\delta}(x_k)\) is the infimum of the diameters of the sets of weak\(^\ast\) cluster points of the subsequences of \((x_k)\), and \(\hat{d}(\mathrm{clust}_{X^{\ast\ast}}(x_k),X)\) is the Hausdorff non-symmetrized distance, then the inequality \(\tilde{\delta}(x_k)\leq 2\hat{d}(\mathrm{clust}_{X^{\ast\ast}}(x_k),X)\) holds for every sequence in a Banach space, and the converse \(2\hat{d}(\mathrm{clust}_{X^{\ast\ast}}(x_k),X)\leq\tilde{\delta}(x_k)\) holds in \(L\)-embedded spaces.




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