Anthropocene Geopolitics

Abstract

In the context of metric fixed point theory in Banach spaces three moduli have played an important role. These are R(X), R(a, X) and RW(a, X). This paper looks at some of their properties. Also investigated is what happens when they take on the value of 1. The situation where these moduli are set in dual space is also considered.Date: May 19, 2020. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 46B10, 47H09, 47H10. Key words and phrases. fixed point, R(X), R(a, X), RW (a, X), property(M ), nonstrict Opial condition. erty. Interestingly, in [2] the author showed that the Schur property is equivalent to X satisfying both property(m ∞ ) and property(m 1 ).Close to the origin there is no structure associated with weak null sequences. Away from the origin a very different scenario appears; X has at least property(m ∞ ), maybe the Schur property. Are there any other Banach spaces where this sort of thing occurs -irregularity near the origin, strong structure away from the origin?Another important Banach space property, in the context of fixed point theory, is Property(K) which was introduced in [29].Definition 5.4. A Banach space X has property(K) if there exists K ∈ [0, 1) such that whenever x n ⇀ 0, lim n→∞ x n = 1 and lim inf n→∞ x n − x 1 then x K.Note that implicit in this definition is the fact that X cannot have the Schur propery.Sims in [29] showed that Property(K) implied weak normal structure and hence the w-FPP.If R(X) = 1 then X cannot have Property(K) has shown below.Proposition 5.5. Let X be a separable Banach space then if X has Property(K) then R(X) > 1.Proof. Let X have Property(K) and assume that R(X) = 1. Then by proposition 5.2, c 0 ֒→ X. In [5] Dalby and Sims showed that if c 0 ֒→ X then X does not have Property(K). We have the required contradiction.The same applies to RW (1, X).Proposition 5.6. If a separable Banach space, X, has Property(K) then RW (1, X) > 1.

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