For $1\le p <\infty $ , we present a reflexive Banach space $\mathfrak {X}^{(p)}_{\text {awi}}$ , with an unconditional basis, that admits $\ell _p$ as a unique asymptotic model and does not contain any Asymptotic $\ell _p$ subspaces. Freeman et al., Trans. AMS. 370 (2018), 6933–6953 have shown that whenever a Banach space not containing $\ell _1$ , in particular a reflexive Banach space, admits $c_0$ as a unique asymptotic model, then it is Asymptotic $c_0$ . These results provide a complete answer to a problem posed by Halbeisen and Odell [Isr. J. Math. 139 (2004), 253–291] and also complete a line of inquiry of the relation between specific asymptotic structures in Banach spaces, initiated in a previous paper by the first and fourth authors. For the definition of $\mathfrak {X}^{(p)}_{\text {awi}}$ , we use saturation with asymptotically weakly incomparable constraints, a new method for defining a norm that remains small on a well-founded tree of vectors which penetrates any infinite dimensional closed subspace.

The paper deals with the sets of numbers from [0,1] such that their binary representation is almost convergent. The aim of the study is to compute the Hausdorff dimensions of such sets. Previously, the results of this type were proved for a single summation method (e.g. Cesàro, Abel, Toeplitz). This study extends the results to a wide range of matrix summation methods.

We show that every Lorentz sequence space $d(\textbf {w},p)$ admits a 1-complemented subspace Y distinct from $\ell _p$ and containing no isomorph of $d(\textbf {w},p)$ . In the general case, this is only the second nontrivial complemented subspace in $d(\textbf {w},p)$ yet known. We also give an explicit representation of Y in the special case $\textbf {w}=(n^{-\theta })_{n=1}^\infty $ ( $0<\theta <1$ ) as the $\ell _p$ -sum of finite-dimensional copies of $d(\textbf {w},p)$ . As an application, we find a sixth distinct element in the lattice of closed ideals of $\mathcal {L}(d(\textbf {w},p))$ , of which only five were previously known in the general case.

Let X be a real Banach space. The rectangular constant $\mu (X)$ and some generalisations of it, $\mu _p(X)$ for $p \geq 1$ , were introduced by Gastinel and Joly around half a century ago. In this paper we make precise some characterisations of inner product spaces by using $\mu _p(X)$ , correcting some statements appearing in the literature, and extend to $\mu _p(X)$ some characterisations of uniformly nonsquare spaces, known only for $\mu (X)$ . We also give a characterisation of two-dimensional spaces with hexagonal norms. Finally, we indicate some new upper estimates concerning $\mu (l_p)$ and $\mu _p(l_p)$ .

We investigate the isomorphic structure of the Cesàro spaces and their duals, the Tandori spaces. The main result states that the Cesàro function space $\text{Ces}_{\infty }$ and its sequence counterpart $\text{ces}_{\infty }$ are isomorphic. This is rather surprising since $\text{Ces}_{\infty }$ (like Talagrand’s example) has no natural lattice predual. We prove that $\text{ces}_{\infty }$ is not isomorphic to $\ell _{\infty }$ nor is $\text{Ces}_{\infty }$ isomorphic to the Tandori space $\widetilde{L_{1}}$ with the norm $\Vert f\Vert _{\widetilde{L_{1}}}=\Vert \widetilde{f}\Vert _{L_{1}}$, where $\widetilde{f}(t):=\text{ess}\,\sup _{s\geqslant t}|f(s)|$. Our investigation also involves an examination of the Schur and Dunford–Pettis properties of Cesàro and Tandori spaces. In particular, using results of Bourgain we show that a wide class of Cesàro–Marcinkiewicz and Cesàro–Lorentz spaces have the latter property.

The notion of metric compactification was introduced by Gromov and later rediscovered by Rieffel. It has been mainly studied on proper geodesic metric spaces. We present here a generalization of the metric compactification that can be applied to infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. Thereafter we give a complete description of the metric compactification of infinite-dimensional $\ell _{p}$ spaces for all $1\leqslant p<\infty$. We also give a full characterization of the metric compactification of infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.

Given a Banach operator ideal $\mathcal A$, we investigate the approximation property related to the ideal of $\mathcal A$-compact operators, $\mathcal K_{\mathcal A}$-AP. We prove that a Banach space X has the $\mathcal K_{\mathcal A}$-AP if and only if there exists a λ ≥ 1 such that for every Banach space Y and every R ∈ $\mathcal K_{\mathcal A}$(Y, X),

$$ \begin{equation} R \in \overline {\{SR : S \in \mathcal F(X, X), \|SR\|_{\mathcal K_{\mathcal A}} \leq \lambda \|R\|_{\mathcal K_{\mathcal A}}\}}^{\tau_{c}}. \end{equation} $$

$\mathcal A$

$\mathcal K_{(\mathcal A^{{\rm adj}})^{{\rm dual}}}$

$\mathcal K_{\mathcal A}$

We construct a weak Hilbert space that is a twisted Hilbert space.

An investigation is made of the continuity, the compactness and the spectrum of the Cesàro operator $\mathsf{C}$ when acting on the weighted Banach sequence spaces $\ell _{p}(w)$, $1<p<\infty$, for a positive decreasing weight $w$, thereby extending known results for $\mathsf{C}$ when acting on the classical spaces $\ell _{p}$. New features arise in the weighted setting (for example, existence of eigenvalues, compactness) which are not present in $\ell _{p}$.

We introduce an approximation property (${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$-AP, $1\leq p<\infty$), which is weaker than the classical approximation property, and discover the duality relationship between the ${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$-AP and the ${\mathcal{K}}_{p}$-AP. More precisely, we prove that for every $1<p<\infty$, if the dual space $X^{\ast }$ of a Banach space $X$ has the ${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$-AP, then $X$ has the ${\mathcal{K}}_{p}$-AP, and if $X^{\ast }$ has the ${\mathcal{K}}_{p}$-AP, then $X$ has the ${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$-AP. As a consequence, it follows that every Banach space has the ${\mathcal{K}}_{u2}$-AP and that for every $1<p<\infty$, $p\neq 2$, there exists a separable reflexive Banach space failing to have the ${\mathcal{K}}_{\mathit{up}}$-AP.

In this paper, we present the computation of exact value of nonsquare constants for some types of Orlicz sequence and function spaces. Main results: Let φ(u) be an N-function, φ(t) be the right derivative of φ(u), then we have (i) if φ (t) is concave, then (ii) if φ (t)is convex, then

We study the Schur and (weak) Dunford-Pettis properties in Banach lattices. We show that l1, c0 and l∞ are the only Banach symmetric sequence spaces with the weak Dunford-Pettis property. We also characterize a large class of Banach lattices without the (weak) Dunford-Pettis property. In MusielakOrlicz sequence spaces we give some necessary and sufficient conditions for the Schur property, extending the Yamamuro result. We also present a number of results on the Schur property in weighted Orlicz sequence spaces, and, in particular, we find a complete characterization of this property for weights belonging to class ∧. We also present examples of weighted Orlicz spaces with the Schur property which are not L1-spaces. Finally, as an application of the results in sequence spaces, we provide a description of the weak Dunford-Pettis and the positive Schur properties in Orlicz spaces over an infinite non-atomic measure space.