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Megrelishvili defines in [17] light groups of isomorphisms of a Banach space as the groups on which the Weak and Strong Operator Topologies coincide, and proves that every bounded group of isomorphisms of Banach spaces with the Point of Continuity Property (PCP) is light. We investigate this concept for isomorphism groups G of classical Banach spaces X without the PCP, specially isometry groups, and relate it to the existence of G-invariant LUR or strictly convex renormings of X.

Megrelishvili defines light groups of isomorphisms of a Banach space as the groups on which the weak and strong operator topologies coincide and proves that every bounded group of isomorphisms of Banach spaces with the point of continuity property (PCP) is light. We investigate this concept for isomorphism groups G of classical Banach spaces X without the PCP, especially isometry groups, and relate it to the existence of G-invariant LUR or strictly convex renormings of X. We give an example of a Banach space X and an infinite countable group of isomorphisms G GL(X) which is SOT-discrete but such that X does not admit a distinguished point for G, providing a negative answer to a question of Ferenczi and Rosendal. We also prove that every combinatorial Banach space is (V)polyhedral. In particular, the Schreier spaces of countable order provide new solutions to a problem proposed by Lindenstrauss concerning the existence of an infinite-dimensional Banach space whose unit ball is the closed convex hull of its extreme points.

This article deals with the problem of when, given a collection $\mathcal {C}$ of weakly compact operators between separable Banach spaces, there exists a separable reflexive Banach space Z with a Schauder basis so that every element in $\mathcal {C}$ factors through Z (or through a subspace of Z). In particular, we show that there exists a reflexive space Z with a Schauder basis so that for each separable Banach space X, each weakly compact operator from X to $L_1[0,1]$ factors through Z. We also prove the following descriptive set theoretical result: Let $\mathcal {L}$ be the standard Borel space of bounded operators between separable Banach spaces. We show that if $\mathcal {B}$ is a Borel subset of weakly compact operators between Banach spaces with separable duals, then for $A \in \mathcal {B}$ , the assignment $A \to A^*$ can be realised by a Borel map $\mathcal {B}\to \mathcal {L}$ .

We will study the generic behavior of circle diffeomorphisms, in the combinatorial, topological and measure-theoretical sense, following the work of Michael Herman. To each order preserving homeomorphism of the circle we can associate a positive real number, called rotation number, which is invariant under conjugacy. We will show that there is a set of irrational numbers with full Lebesgue measure on R such that, if f is a circle diffeomorphism of class C r , with r greater or equal 3 and with rotation number in that set, then f is at least C r−2-conjugated to an irrational translation. Moreover, we will show that if f t is a C 1-path defined on a interval [a, b] over the set of the circle diffeomorphisms orientation preserving, with r ≥ 3, then the set of parameters where f t is C r−2-conjugated to a irrational translation has positive Lebesgue measure, since the rotation numbers of f a and f b are distinct.