Duals of separable Banach Spaces as Calkin Algebras and Universal Ideal Quotients
Abstract
For π=β or β and every separable Banach space V, we use an oracle-relative two-sorted finite-extension construction, whose oracle records the local rational structure of V, to construct a separable Banach space XV such that Cal(XV)=β¬(XV)/π¦(XV)β π&0 V*&π as Banach algebras. The identification of V* with the Jacobson radical is isometric. Consequently, every nonzero dual Banach space with a separable predual admits, after an equivalent renorming, a unital Banach-algebra structure isomorphic to the Calkin algebra of a separable Banach space. Moreover, there is a separable Banach space X such that every separable Banach space is isometric to π₯/π¦(X) for a closed two-sided ideal π₯ of β¬(X), and the subspace--ideal correspondence preserves the canonical order.
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BibTeX
@misc{liu2026duals,
title = {{Duals of separable Banach Spaces as Calkin Algebras and Universal Ideal Quotients}},
author = {Rui Liu and Jie Shen},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.32334},
eprint = {2609.32334},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32334},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Duals of separable Banach Spaces as Calkin Algebras and Universal Ideal Quotients
AU - Rui Liu
AU - Jie Shen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/11
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.32334
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32334
AB - For π=β or β and every separable Banach space V, we use an oracle-relative two-sorted finite-extension construction, whose oracle records the local rational structure of V, to construct a separable Banach space X_V such that Cal(X_V)=β¬(X_V)/π¦(X_V)β π&0 V^*&π as Banach algebras. The identification of V^* with the Jacobson radical is isometric. Consequently, every nonzero dual Banach space with a separable predual admits, after an equivalent renorming, a unital Banach-algebra structure isomorphic to the Calkin algebra of a separable Banach space. Moreover, there is a separable Banach space X such that every separable Banach space is isometric to π₯/π¦(X) for a closed two-sided ideal π₯ of β¬(X), and the subspace--ideal correspondence preserves the canonical order.
ER -