Reflexive representability and stable metrics

It is well-known that a topological group can be represented as a group of isometries of a reflexive Banach space if and only if its topology is induced by weakly almost periodic functions (see \cite{Shtern:CompactSemitopologicalSemigroups}, \cite{Megrelishvili:OperatorTopologies} and \cite{Megrelishvili:TopologicalTransformations}). We show that for a metrisable group this is equivalent to the property that its metric is uniformly equivalent to a stable metric in the sense of Krivine and Maurey (see \cite{Krivine-Maurey:EspacesDeBanachStables}). This result is used to give a partial negative answer to a problem of Megrelishvili

Uniform Kadec-Klee Property in Banach lattices

Abstract We prove that a Banach lattice X which does not contain the l n ∞ -uniformly has an equivalent norm which is uniformly Kadec-Klee for a natural topology τ on X. In case the Banach lattice is purely atomic, the topology τ is the coordinatewise convergence topology