Non-universal families of separable Banach spaces

Abstract

We prove that if C is a family of separable Banach spaces which is analytic with respect to the Effros Borel structure and no X is an element of C is isometrically universal for all separable Banach spaces, then there exists a separable Banach space with a monotone Schauder basis which is isometrically universal for C but not for all separable Banach spaces. We also establish an analogous result for the class of strictly convex spaces.

Keywords

• isometrically universal Banach space
• Effros Borel structure
• analytic set
• monotone basis
• strict convexity