{ "id": "1812.02840", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-12-06T22:45:02.000Z", "updated": "2018-12-06T22:45:02.000Z", "title": "On the undefinability of Tsirelson's space and its descendants", "authors": [ "Peter Casazza", "Jose Iovino" ], "categories": [ "math.LO" ], "abstract": "We prove that Tsirelson's space cannot be defined explicitly from the classical Banach sequence spaces. We also prove that any Banach space that is explicitly definable from a class of spaces that contain $\\ell_p$ or $c_0$ must contain $\\ell_p$ or $c_0$ as well.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-12-06T22:45:02.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "tsirelsons space", "undefinability", "descendants", "classical banach sequence spaces" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }