An interplay between the weak form of Peano's theorem and structural aspects of Banach spaces

Abstract

In this paper we establish some new results concerning the Cauchy-Peano problem in Banach spaces. Firstly, we prove that if a Banach space $E$ admits a fundamental biorthogonal system, then there exists a continuous vector field $f\colon E\to E$ such that the autonomous differential equation $u'=f(u)$ has no solutions at any time. The proof relies on a key result asserting that every infinite-dimensional Fréchet space with a fundamental biorthogonal system possesses a nontrivial separable quotient. The later, is the byproduct of a mixture of known results on barrelledness and two fundamental results of Banach space theory (namely, a result of Pełczyński on Banach spaces containing $L_1(μ)$ and the $\ell_1$-theorem of Rosenthal). Next, we introduce a natural notion of weak-approximate solutions for the non-autonomous Cauchy-Peano problem in Banach spaces, and prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of such an approximation is the absence of $\ell_1$-isomorphs inside the underline space. We also study a kind of algebraic genericity for the Cauchy-Peano problem in spaces $E$ having complemented subspaces with unconditional Schauder basis. It is proved that if $\mathscr{K}(E)$ denotes the family of all continuous vector fields $f\colon E\to E$ for which $u'=f(u)$ has no solutions at any time, then $\mathscr{K}(E)\bigcup \{0\}$ is spaceable in sense that it contains a closed infinite dimensional subspace of $C(E)$, the locally convex space of all continuous vector fields on $E$ with the linear topology of uniform convergence on bounded sets.