Distorting Mixed Tsirelson Spaces

Abstract

Any regular mixed Tsirelson space $T(θ_n,S_n)_{\N}$ for which $\frac{θ_n}{θ^n} \to 0$, where $θ=\lim_n θ_n^{1/n}$, is shown to be arbitrarily distortable. Certain asymptotic $\ell_1$ constants for those and other mixed Tsirelson spaces are calculated. Also a combinatorial result on the Schreier families $(S_α)_{α< ω_1}$ is proved and an application is given to show that for every Banach space $X$ with a basis $(e_i)$, the two $Δ$-spectrums $Δ(X)$ and $Δ(X,(e_i))$ coincide.