A note on commutative and noncommutative Gurariĭ spaces

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Abstract: In this short note, we answer two questions about Gurariy spaces asked in the literature in the affirmative. We also prove the analogue of one of the results for the noncommutative Guariy space.


Let \(\mathbb{G}\) and \(\mathbb{N}\mathbb{G}\) be the Gurariy space and the non-commutative Gurariy space, respectively. In Section~2 it is shown that if a Banach space is almost isometric to some Gurariy space, then it is a Gurariy space itself (Thm.~2.2). Thus, since \(\mathbb{G}\) is unique up to isometry, if \(X\) is almost isometric to \(\mathbb{G}\), \(X\) is isometric to \(\mathbb{G}\) (Cor.~2.3). In Section~3 a corresponding result to Cor.~2.3 is found: If an operator space is at completely bounded Banach-Mazur distance~$1$ from \(\mathbb{N}\mathbb{G}\), then it is completely isometrically isomorphic to \(\mathbb{N}\mathbb{G}\) (Thm.~3.2). It is known from [\textit{T.~A. Abrahamsen} et al., Glasg. Math. J. 56, No.~2, 395--407 (2014; Zbl 1303.46012)] that a Banach space \(X\) is a Gurariy space if and only if it sits as an almost isometric ideal in every superspace \(Z\). The main result in Section~4 is that we may assume \(X\) has co-dimension 1 in \(Z\) in the ``if part above (Prop.~4.2). Section~5 contains some considerations concerning M-structure and Gurariy spaces culminating with the following problem: Must a non-separable M-ideal in a Gurariy space be Gurariy (as it is for separable M-ideals)?











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