On complemented subspaces of sums and products of Banach spaces

We study the complemented subspaces of the $J$-sums of Banach spaces $J(\Phi)$ and $\hat J(\Phi)$ introduced by Bellenot. As an application, we show that, under some conditions, $J(\Phi)$ and $\hat J(\Phi)$ are subprojective, i.e., every closed infinite-dimensional subspace of either of them contains a complemented infinite-dimensional subspace.

We analyse several examples of separable Banach spaces, some of them new, and relate them to several dichotomies obtained in the previous paper Banach spaces without minimal subspaces, by classifying them according to which side of the dichotomies they fall. This paper may be seen as a more empirical continuation of Banach spaces without minimal subspaces, in which our stress is on the study of examples for the new classes of Banach spaces considered in that work.

Two methods of constructing infinitely many isomorphically distinct $\Cal L_p$-spaces have been published. In this article we show that these constructions yield very different spaces and in the process develop methods for dealing with these spaces from the isomorphic viewpoint. We use these methods to give a complete isomorphic classification of the spaces $R_p^\alpha$ constructed by Bourgain, Rosenthal, and Schechtman and to show that $X_p\otimes X_p$ is not isomorphic to a...

In the article is introduced a new class of Banach spaces that are called sub B-convex. Namely, a Banach space X is said to be B -convex if it may be represented as a direct sum l_1+ W, where W is B-convex. It will be shown that any separable sub B-convex Banach space X may be almost isometrically embedded in a separable Banach space G(X) of the same cotype as X, which has a series of properties. Namely, G(X) is an approximate envelope, i.e. any separable Banach space which i...

Several new characterizations of Banach spaces containing a subspace isomorphic to $\ell^1$, are obtained. These are applied to the question of when $\ell^1$ embeds in the injective tensor product of two Banach spaces.

A classical result of Cembranos and Freniche states that the C(K, X) spaces contains a complemented copy of c_0 whenever K is an infinite compact Hausdorff space and X is an infinite dimensional Banach space. This paper takes this result as a starting point and begins a study of the conditions under which the spaces C(alpha), alpha<omega_1 are quotients of or complemented in spaces C(K,X). In contrast to the c_0 result, we prove that if C(beta mathbb N times [1,omega], X) c...

A Banach space X is said to have the Tsirelson property if it does not contain subspaces that are isomorphic to l_{p}, p in [1,infty) or c_{0}. The article contains a quite simple method to producing Banach spaces with the Tsirelson property.

We obtain some results for and further examples of subprojective and superprojective Banach spaces. We also give several conditions providing examples of non-reflexive superprojective spaces; one of these conditions is stable under $c_0$-sums and projective tensor products.

A set $E$ in a Banach space $X$ is compactivorous if for every compact set $K$ in $X$ there is a nonempty, (relatively) open subset of $K$ which can be translated into $E$. In a separable Banach space, this is a sufficient condition which guarantees the Haar nonnegligibility of Borel subsets. We give some characterisations of this property in both separable and nonseparable Banach spaces and prove an extension of the main theorem to countable products of locally compact Polis...

We prove that, for every compact spaces $K_1,K_2$ and a compact group $G$, if both $K_1$ and $K_2$ map continuously onto $G$, then the Banach space $C(K_1\times K_2)$ contains a complemented subspace isometric to $C(G)$. Consequently, answering a question of Alspach and Galego, we get that $C(\beta\omega\times\beta\omega)$ contains a complemented isomorphic copy of $C([0,1]^\kappa$) for every cardinal number $1\le\kappa\le {\mathfrak c}$ and hence a complemented copy of $C(K)...