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1999 Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications
August 4-7, 1999
C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
Brookville, NY, USA

Organizers
Sheldon Rothman, Ralph Kopperman

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Coverings and renormings
by
Aníbal Moltó
University of Valencia, Spain
Coauthors: J. Orihuela (University of Murcia, Spain), S. Troyanski (University of Sofia, Bulgaria), M. Valdivia (University of Valencia, Spain)

Theorem (Orihuela, Troyanski, Moltó) A Banach space X has an equivalent locally uniformly rotund (LUR) norm iff for every r > 0 there is a countable covering Xn, n=1, 2, ... of X such that for every n and any x in Xn there exists a open half-space H of X containing x in such a way that the diameter of the intersection of H with Xn is less than r.

An easy consequence of this is

Corollary Let T be a linear bounded operator from the Banach space X into a LUR Banach space Y such that for every r > 0 there is a countable covering Xn, n=1, 2, ... of X and a sequence sn > 0 in such a way that the distance from x to y is less than r whenever the distance from Tx to Ty is less than sn, and x, y are points of Xn. Then X is LUR renormable.

The only role of the linearity of T is to guarantee that it transfers slices from Y into X. Nevertheless since we can split X into countable pieces we do not need ``global linearity'' but some sort of ``sigma-linearity''. Conditions on T to have such sort of ``linearity'' are obtained and characterized in terms of r-subdifferentials.

Date received: June 5, 1999


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