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Shellable weakly compact subsets of $C[0,1]$

Functional Analysis 2016-03-18 v1

Abstract

We show that for every weakly compact subset KK of C[0,1]C[0,1] with finite Cantor-Bendixson rank, there is a reflexive Banach lattice EE and an operator T:EC[0,1]T:E\rightarrow C[0,1] such that KT(BE)K\subseteq T(B_E). On the other hand, we exhibit an example of a weakly compact set of C[0,1]C[0,1] homeomorphic to ωω+1\omega^\omega+1 for which such TT and EE cannot exist. This answers a question of M. Talagrand in the 80's.

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@article{arxiv.1603.05573,
  title  = {Shellable weakly compact subsets of $C[0,1]$},
  author = {J. Lopez-Abad and P. Tradacete},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05573},
  year   = {2016}
}

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13 pages

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