Polynomially reflexive space

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In mathematics, a polynomially reflexive space is a Banach space X, on which all polynomials are reflexive.

Given a multilinear functional Mn of degree n (that is, Mn is n-linear), we can define a polynomial p as

p(x)=M_n(x,\dots,x)

(that is, applying Mn on the diagonal) or any finite sum of these. If only n-linear functionals are in the sum, the polynomial is said to be n-homogeneous.

We define the space Pn as consisting of all n-homogeneous polynomials.

The P1 is identical to the dual space, and is thus reflexive for all reflexive X. This implies that reflexivity is a prerequisite for polynomial reflexivity.

In the presence of the approximation property of X, a reflexive Banach space is polynomially reflexive, if and only if every polynomial on X is weak sequentially continuous.

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For the lpspaces, the Pn is reflexive if and only if n < p. Thus, no \ell^p is polynomially reflexive. (l^\infty is ruled out because it is not reflexive.)

Thus if space contains \ell^p as a quotient space, it is not polynomially reflexive. This makes polynomially reflexive spaces rare.

The symmetric Tsirelson space is polynomially reflexive.