Lineability and spaceability: a new approach

Abstract

The area of research called \textquotedblleft Lineability\textquotedblright% \ looks for linear structures inside exotic subsets of vector spaces. In the last decade lineability/spaceability has been investigated in rather general settings; for instance, Set Theory, Probability Theory, Functional Analysis, Measure Theory, etc. It is a common feeling that positive results on lineability/spaceability are quite natural (i.e., in general \textquotedblleft large\textquotedblright subspaces can be found inside exotic subsets of vector spaces, in quite different settings) and more restrictive approaches have been persecuted. In this paper we introduce and explore a new approach in this direction.