Szlenk and $w^\ast$-dentability indices of the Banach spaces $C([0,\alpha])$

Abstract

Let $\alpha$ be an infinite ordinal and $\gamma$ the unique ordinal satisfying $\omega^{\omega^\gamma}\leq \alpha < \omega^{\omega^{\gamma+1}}$. We show that the Banach space $C([0,\,\alpha])$ of all continuous scalar-valued functions on the compact ordinal interval $[0,\,\alpha]$ has Szlenk index equal to $\omega^{\gamma+1}$ and $w^\ast$-dentability index equal to $\omega^{1+\gamma+1}$.