The main result of this paper is the following: A separable Banach space X is reflexive if and only if the infimum of the Gelfand numbers of any bounded linear operator defined on X can be computed by means of just one sequence on nested, closed, finite codimensional subspaces with null intersection.
@article{urn:eudml:doc:43226,
title = {Two geometric constants for operators acting on a separable Banach space.},
journal = {Revista Matem\'atica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid},
volume = {1},
year = {1988},
pages = {23-30},
zbl = {0668.47018},
mrnumber = {MR0977039},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/urn:eudml:doc:43226}
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Martín Peinador, E.; Induráin, E.; Plans Sanz de Bremond, A.; Rodes Usan, A. A. Two geometric constants for operators acting on a separable Banach space.. Revista Matemática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Tome 1 (1988) pp. 23-30. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/urn:eudml:doc:43226/