ON EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS GENERATED BY SCHAUDER BASES

Abstract

AbstractIn this article, a notion of Schauder equivalence relation ℝℕ/L is introduced, where L is a linear subspace of ℝℕ and the unit vectors form a Schauder basis of L. The main theorem is to show that the following conditions are equivalent:(1) the unit vector basis is boundedly complete;(2) L is a Fσ in ℝℕ;(3) ℝℕ/L is Borel reducible to ℓ∞.We show that any Schauder equivalence relation generalized by a basis of ℓ2 is Borel bireducible to ℝℕ/ℓ2 itself, but it is not true for bases of c0 or ℓ1. Furthermore, among all Schauder equivalence relations generated by sequences in c0, we find the minimum and the maximum elements with respect to Borel reducibility.