In this paper, we study minimality properties of partly modified mixed Tsirelson spaces. A Banach space with a normalized basis (e_k) is said to be subsequentially minimal if for every normalized block basis (x_k) of (e_k), there is a further block (y_k) of (x_k) such that (y_k) is equivalent to a subsequence of (e_k). Sufficient conditions are given for a partly modified mixed Tsirelson space to be subsequentially minimal and connections with Bourgains ell^{1}-index are established. It is also shown that a large class of mixed Tsirelson spaces fails to be subsequentially minimal in a strong sense.
If alpha and beta are countable ordinals such that beta eq 0, denote by tilde{T}_{alpha,beta} the completion of $c_{00}$ with respect to the implicitly defined norm ||x|| = max{||x||_{c_{0}}, 1/2 sup sum_{i=1}^{j}||E_{i}x||}, where the supremum is taken over all finite subsets E_{1},...,E_{j} of $mathbb{N}$ such that $E_{1}<...<E_{j}$ and {min E_{1},...,min E_{j}} in S_beta. It is shown that the Bourgain $ell^{1}$-index of tilde{T}_{alpha,beta} is omega^{alpha+beta.omega}. In particular, if alpha =omega^{alpha_{1}}. m_{1}+...+omega^{alpha_{n}}. m_{n} in Cantor normal form and alpha_{n} is not a limit ordinal, then there exists a Banach space whose ell^{1}-index is omega^{alpha}.
We study Banach spaces X with a strongly asymptotic l_p basis (any disjointly supported finite set of vectors far enough out with respect to the basis behaves like l_p) which are minimal (X embeds into every infinite dimensional subspace). In particular such spaces embed into l_p.
We investigate the existence of higher order ell^1-spreading models in subspaces of mixed Tsirelson spaces. For instance, we show that the following conditions are equivalent for the mixed Tsirelson space X=T[(theta _n,S_n)_{n=1}^{infty}] (1)Every block subspace of $X$ contains an ell^1-S_{omega}-spreading model, (2)The Bourgain ell^1-index I_b(Y) = I(Y) > omega^{omega} for any block subspace Y of X, (3)lim_mlimsup_ntheta_{m+n}/theta_n > 0 and every block subspace Y of X contains a block sequence equivalent to a subsequence of the unit vector basis of X. Moreover, if one (and hence all) of these conditions holds, then X is arbitrarily distortable.
The class of mixed Tsirelson spaces is an important source of examples in the recent development of the structure theory of Banach spaces. The related class of modified mixed Tsirelson spaces has also been well studied. In the present paper, we investigate the problem of comparing isomorphically the mixed Tsirelson space T[(S_n,theta_{n})_{n=1}^{infty}] and its modified version T_{M}[(S_{n},theta_{n})_{n=1}^{infty}]. It is shown that these spaces are not isomorphic for a large class of parameters (theta_{n}).
In this paper, we investigate Kondratiev spaces on domains of polyhedral type. In particular, we will be concerned with necessary and sufficient conditions for continuous and compact embeddings, and in addition we shall deal with pointwise multiplication in these spaces.