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Prescribed Szlenk index of separable Banch spaces

Functional Analysis 2018-09-14 v2

Abstract

In a previous work, the first named author described the set P\cal P of all values of the Szlenk indices of separable Banach spaces. We complete this result by showing that for any integer nn and any ordinal α\alpha in P\cal P, there exists a separable Banach space XX such that the Szlenk of the dual of order kk of XX is equal to the first infinite ordinal ω\omega for all kk in {0,..,n1}\{0,..,n-1\} and equal to α\alpha for k=nk=n. One of the ingredients is to show that the Lindenstrauss space and its dual both have a Szlenk index equal to ω\omega. We also show that any element of P\cal P can be realized as a Szlenk index of a reflexive Banach space with an unconditional basis.

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@article{arxiv.1710.01638,
  title  = {Prescribed Szlenk index of separable Banch spaces},
  author = {Ryan M. Causey and Gilles Lancien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01638},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

17 pages. It is a revised version of the previous preprint "Prescribed Szlenk index of iterated duals": arXiv:1710.01638. The paper has been reorganized and the title has been changed. To appear in Studia Math