EMBEDDING $\ell_{\infty}$ INTO THE SPACE OF BOUNDED OPERATORS ON CERTAIN BANACH SPACES

Abstract

Sufficient conditions are given on a Banach space $X$ which ensure that $\ell_{\infty}$ embeds in ${\mathcal L}\, (X)$, the space of all bounded linear operators on $X$. A basic sequence $(e_n)$ is said to be quasisubsymmetric if for any two increasing sequences $(k_n)$ and $(\ell_n)$ of positive integers with $k_n \leq \ell_n$ for all $n$, $(e_{k_n})$ dominates $(e_{\ell_n})$. If a Banach space $X$ has a seminormalized quasisubsymmetric basis then $\ell_{\infty}$ embeds in ${\mathcal L}\, (X)$.