A renorming characterisation of Banach spaces containing _1 ()

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Abstract: A result of G. Godefroy asserts that a Banach space X contains an isomorphic copy of ell1 if and only if there is an equivalent norm |||cdot||| such that, for every finite-dimensional subspace Y of X and every varepsilon>0, there exists xinSX so that |||y+rx|||geq(1varepsilon)(|||y|||+vertrvert) for every yinY and every rinmathbbR. In this paper we generalize this result to larger cardinals, showing that if kappa is an uncountable cardinal then a Banach space X contains a copy of ell1(kappa) if and only if there is an equivalent norm |||cdot||| on X such that for every subspace Y of X with dens(Y)<kappa there exists a norm-one vector x so that |||y+rx|||=|||y|||+vertrvert whenever yinY and rinmathbbR. This result answers a question posed by S. Ciaci, J. Langemets and A. Lissitsin, where the authors wonder whether the previous statement holds for infinite succesor cardinals. We also show that, in the countable case, the result of Godefroy cannot be improved to take varepsilon=0.









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