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Main Authors: Kadets, Vladimir, Ribeiro, Geivison
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18534
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author Kadets, Vladimir
Ribeiro, Geivison
author_facet Kadets, Vladimir
Ribeiro, Geivison
contents For an operator T from X to Y denote m(T) the infimum of $||Tx||$ on the unit sphere $S_X$ of X. A sequence $(x_n)$ in $S_X$ is said to be minimizing for T if $||Tx_n||$ tends to m(T). In 2020 U. S. Chakraborty introduced and studied the following weak minimizing property (WmP): a pair (X,Y) of Banach spaces is said to have the WmP if, for every bounded linear operator $T: X \to Y$ that admits a non-weakly null minimizing sequence, the function $x \mapsto \|Tx\|$ attains its minimum on the unit sphere. We present the following new results about the WmP for pairs of infinite-dimensional separable Banach spaces: (i) If (X,Y) has the WmP, then X is reflexive. (ii) If X is reflexive and Y does not contain isomorphic copies of X, then (X,Y) has the WmP. (iii) If X is reflexive and Y contains an isomorphic copy of X, then there is an equivalent norm on Y such that, for this equivalent norm, (X,Y) does not have the WmP. The first result extends to non-separable X if and only if X possesses a countable total set of functionals.
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spellingShingle Weak minimizing property and reflexivity
Kadets, Vladimir
Ribeiro, Geivison
Functional Analysis
46B20
For an operator T from X to Y denote m(T) the infimum of $||Tx||$ on the unit sphere $S_X$ of X. A sequence $(x_n)$ in $S_X$ is said to be minimizing for T if $||Tx_n||$ tends to m(T). In 2020 U. S. Chakraborty introduced and studied the following weak minimizing property (WmP): a pair (X,Y) of Banach spaces is said to have the WmP if, for every bounded linear operator $T: X \to Y$ that admits a non-weakly null minimizing sequence, the function $x \mapsto \|Tx\|$ attains its minimum on the unit sphere. We present the following new results about the WmP for pairs of infinite-dimensional separable Banach spaces: (i) If (X,Y) has the WmP, then X is reflexive. (ii) If X is reflexive and Y does not contain isomorphic copies of X, then (X,Y) has the WmP. (iii) If X is reflexive and Y contains an isomorphic copy of X, then there is an equivalent norm on Y such that, for this equivalent norm, (X,Y) does not have the WmP. The first result extends to non-separable X if and only if X possesses a countable total set of functionals.
title Weak minimizing property and reflexivity
topic Functional Analysis
46B20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18534