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Two Geometric Constants for Operators Acting on a Separable Banach Space

Elena MARTíN, Esteban INDURAIN,
Antonio PLANS, and Álvaro RODES
Departamento de Matemáticas
Facultad de Ciencias
Zaragoza 50009 -- Spain

 

Recibido: March 3, 1988
Revisado: June 24, 1988
ABSTRACT

The main result of this paper is the following: A separable Banach space X  is reflexive if and only if the infimum of the Gelfand numbers of any bounded linear operator defined on X  can be computed by means of just one sequence on nested, closed, finite codimensional subspaces with null intersection.

1980 Mathematics Subject Classification (1985 revision): 47A10, 47A53, 46B10, 40A05.