We show that for "most" compact nonmetrizable spaces, the unit ball of the Banach space C(K) contains an uncountable 2-equilateral set. We also give examples of compact nonmetrizable spaces K such that the minimum cardinality of a maximal equilateral set in C(K) is countable.
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author = {Sophocles K. Mercourakis and Georgios Vassiliadis},
title = {Equilateral sets in Banach spaces of the form C(K)},
journal = {Studia Mathematica},
volume = {231},
year = {2015},
pages = {241-255},
zbl = {06575015},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-sm8259-1-2016}
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Sophocles K. Mercourakis; Georgios Vassiliadis. Equilateral sets in Banach spaces of the form C(K). Studia Mathematica, Tome 231 (2015) pp. 241-255. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-sm8259-1-2016/