An Asplund space with norming Marku\v{s}evi\v{c} basis that is not weakly compactly generated

Abstract

We construct an Asplund Banach space $\mathcal{X}$ with a norming Marku\v{s}evi\v{c} basis such that $\mathcal{X}$ is not weakly compactly generated. This solves a long-standing open problem from the early nineties, originally due to Gilles Godefroy. En route to the proof, we construct a peculiar example of scattered compact space, that also solves a question due to Wies{\l}aw Kubi\'s and Arkady Leiderman.