The complexity of classifying separable Banach spaces up to isomorphism

By V. Ferenczi, Alain Louveau, Christian Rosendal. 2006

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It is proved that the relation of isomorphism between separable Banach spaces is a complete analytic equivalence relation, that is, that any analytic equivalence relation Borel reduces to it. This solves a problem of G. Godefroy. Thus, separable Banach spaces up to isomorphism provide complete invariants for a great number of mathematical structures up to their corresponding notion of isomorphism. The same is shown to hold for: (1) complete separable metric spaces up to uniform homeomorphism, (2) separable Banach spaces up to Lipschitz isomorphism and (3) up to (complemented) biembeddability, (4) Polish groups up to topological isomorphism, and (5) Schauder bases up to permutative equivalence. Some of the constructions rely on methods recently developed by S. Argyros and P. Dodos.

Subfields: Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics

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