Applied Analysis Seminar

Monday June 3 in K9509, SFU

10:30 - 11:20 (note time)
Vaclaz Zizler, Edmonton

Title: "Shrinking Markushevich Bases"

Abstract: A Markushevich basis {xa,fa}a Î G for a Banach space X is a biorthogonal system in X such that [` span ]{xa}a Î G = X and {fa}a Î G is separating points in X. We will call such a basis a s- shrinking Markushevich basis if for every e > 0 the set G can be split into G = Èn = 1¥Gne such that (Gne)¢ Ì BX**e, for each n Î IN, where BX**e is the e- ball in X** and (Gen)¢ is the set of all accummulation points of {xa}a Î Gen in X**. We will give a sketch of a proof to the fact that a Banach space X admits a s- shrinking Markushevich basis if and only if X is a subspace of a weakly compactly generated space Z i.e. such a space Z that there is a weakly compact set K in Z whose span is dense in Z. If this happens for X, we will sketch a proof that then any normalized Markushevich basis for X is s- shrinking. We will show how this approach yields a short proof to the known result of Y. Benyamini, M. E. Rudin and M. Wage, namely that a continuous image of an Eberlein compact is an Eberlein compact. The compact space K is an Eberlein compact if K is homeomorphic to a weakly compact set in a Banach space (in its weak topology). We will discuss several open problems in this area.

The talk will be based on a recent joint work of M. Fabian, V. Montesinos and V. Zizler.


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