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On densely isomorphic normed spaces

Functional Analysis 2020-06-08 v2

Abstract

In the first part of our note we prove that every Weakly Lindel\"of Determined (WLD) (in particular, every reflexive) non-separable Banach XX space contains two dense linear subspaces YY and ZZ that are not densely isomorphic. This means that there are no further dense linear subspaces Y0Y_0 and Z0Z_0 of YY and ZZ which are linearly isomorphic. Our main result (Theorem B) concerns the existence of biorthogonal systems in normed spaces. In particular, we prove under the Continuum Hypothesis (CH) that there exists a dense linear subspace of 2(ω1)\ell_2(\omega_1) (or more generally every WLD space of density ω1\omega_1) which contains no uncountable biorthogonal system. This result lies between two fundamental results concerning biorthogonal systems, namely the construction of Kunen (under CH) of a non-separable Banach space which contains no uncountable biorthogonal system, and the construction of Todor\u{c}evi\'c (under Martin Maximum) of an uncountable biorthogonal system in every non-separable Banach space.

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@article{arxiv.1910.01527,
  title  = {On densely isomorphic normed spaces},
  author = {Petr Hájek and Tommaso Russo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01527},
  year   = {2020}
}

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21 pp

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