A note on fragmentability and weak-G_delta sets

In terms of fragmentability, we describe a new class of Banach spaces which do not contain weak-G_delta open bounded subsets. In particular, none of these spaces is isomorphic to a separable polyhedral space

On supportless absorbing convex subsets in normed spaces

It is proved that a separable normed space contains a closed bounded convex symmetric absorbing supportless subset if and only if this space may be covered (in its completion) by the range of a nonisomorphic operator

On decompositions of Banach spaces into a sum of operator ranges

It is proved that a separable Banach space X admits a representation $X = X_1 + X_2$ as a sum (not necessarily direct) of two infinite-codimensional closed subspaces $X_1$ and $X_2$ if and only if it admits a representation $X = A_1(Y_1) + A_2(Y_2)$ as a sum (not necessarily direct) of two infinite-codimensional operator ranges. Suppose that a separable Banach space X admits a representation as above. Then it admits a representation $X = T_1(Z_1) + T_2(Z_2)$ such that neither of the operator ranges $T_1(Z_1)$, $T_2(Z_2)$ contains an infinite-dimensional closed subspace if and only if X does not contain an isomorphic copy of $l_1$

Infinite-dimensional polyhedrality

This paper deals with generalizations of the notion of a polytope to infinite dimensions. The most general definition is the following: a bounded closed convex subset of a Banach space is called a polytope if each of its finite-dimensional affine sections is a (standard) polytope. We study the relationships between eight known definitions of infinite-dimensional polyhedrality. We provide a complete isometric classification of them, which gives solutions to several open problems. An almost complete isomorphic classification is given as well (only one implication remains open)

Covering the unit sphere of certain Banach spaces by sequences of slices and balls

We prove that, given any covering of any infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $H$ by countably many closed balls, some point exists in $H$ which belongs to infinitely many balls. We do that by characterizing isomorphically polyhedral separable Banach spaces as those whose unit sphere admits a point-finite covering by the union of countably many slices of the unit ball