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A quantitative version of James's Compactness Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

Bernardo Cascales
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain (beca@um.es)
Ondřej F. K. Kalenda
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Sokolovská 83, 18675 Praha 8, Czech Republic (kalenda@karlin.mff.cuni.cz; spurny@karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Jiří Spurný
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Sokolovská 83, 18675 Praha 8, Czech Republic (kalenda@karlin.mff.cuni.cz; spurny@karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
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We introduce two measures of weak non-compactness JaE and Ja that quantify, via distances, the idea of boundary that lies behind James's Compactness Theorem. These measures tell us, for a bounded subset C of a Banach space E and for given x*E*, how far from E or C one needs to go to find x**E** with x**(x*) = sup x*(C). A quantitative version of James's Compactness Theorem is proved using JaE and Ja, and in particular it yields the following result. Let C be a closed convex bounded subset of a Banach space E and r > 0. If there is an elementinwhose distance to C is greater than r, then there is x* ∈ E* such that each x**at which sup x*(C) is attained has distance to E greater than ½r. We indeed establish that JaE and Ja are equivalent to other measures of weak non-compactness studied in the literature. We also collect particular cases and examples showing when the inequalities between the different measures of weak non-compactness can be equalities and when the inequalities are sharp.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2012

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