The stabilized set of $p$'s in Krivine's theorem can be disconnected

Abstract

For any closed subset $F$ of $[1,\infty ]$ which is either finite or consists of the elements of an increasing sequence and its limit, a reflexive Banach space $X$ with a 1-unconditional basis is constructed so that in each block subspace $Y$ of $X$, ${\ell }_p$ is finitely block represented in $Y$ if and only if $p\in F$. In particular, this solves the question as to whether the stabilized Krivine set for a Banach space had to be connected. We also prove that for every infinite dimensional subspace $Y$ of $X$ there is a dense subset $G$ of $F$ such that the spreading models admitted by $Y$ are exactly the ${\ell }_p$ for $p\in G$.

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