We construct a complete metric space M of cardinality continuum such that every non-singleton closed separable subset fails to be Lipschitz retract M. This provides analogue the various classical and recent examples Banach spaces failing have linearly complemented subspaces prescribed smaller density character.

A necessary and sufficient condition for existence of a Banach space with a finite dimensional decomposition but without the π-property in terms of norms of compositions of projections is found. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 46B15; Secondary 46B07, 46B28. The problem of existence of Banach spaces with the π-property but without a finite dimensional decomposition is one of the...

This is a survey of results on the classification of Banach spaces as metric spaces. It is based on a series of lectures I gave at the Functional Analysis Seminar in 1984-1985, and it appeared in the 1984-1985 issue of the Longhorn Notes. I keep receiving requests for copies, because some of the material here does not appear elsewhere and because the Longhorn Notes are not so easy to get. Havin...

Introduction. The two sections of this note are independent, but they are related by the fact that both use the results of [5 ] to obtain information on the properties of weakly compact sets in Banach spaces. In the first section we prove some results on a class of compact sets which is believed to include all weakly compact subsets of Banach spaces. We are interested in the properties of the n...