V. V. Mykhaylyuk

We establish an asymptotic behavior of the constants in Khintchine's inequality for independent random variables of mean zero.

Let $E$ be either $\ell_1$ of $L_1$. We consider $E$-unattainable continuous linear operators $T$ from $L_1$ to a Banach space $Y$, i.e., those operators which do not attain their norms on any subspace of $L_1$ isometric to $E$. It is not hard to see that if $T: L_1 \to Y$ is $\ell_1$-unattainable then it is also $L_1$-unattainable. We find some equivalent conditions for an operator to be $\ell_1$-unattainable and construct two operators, first $\ell_1$-unattainable and second $L_1$-unattainable but not $\ell_1$-unattainable. Some open problems remain unsolved.

We solve the problem of constructing separately continuous functions on the product of compact spaces with a given set of discontinuity points. We obtain the following results. 1. For arbitrary \v{C}ech complete spaces $X$, $Y$, and a separable compact perfect projectively nowhere dense zero set $E\subseteq X\times Y$ there exists a separately continuous function $f:X\times Y\to\mathbb R$ the set of discontinuity points, which coincides with $E$. 2. For arbitrary \v{C}ech complete spaces $X$, $Y$, and nowhere dense zero sets $A\subseteq X$ and $B\subseteq Y$ there exists a separately continuous function $f:X\times Y\to\mathbb R$ such that the projections of the set of discontinuity points of $f$ coincides with $A$ and $B$, respectively. We construct an example of Eberlein compacts $X$, $Y$, and nowhere dense zero sets $A\subseteq X$ and $B\subseteq Y$ such that the set of discontinuity points of every separately continuous function $f:X\times Y\to\mathbb R$ does not coincide with $A\times B$, and a $CH$-example of separable Valdivia compacts $X$, $Y$ and separable nowhere dense zero sets $A\subseteq X$ and $B\subseteq Y$ such that the set of discontinuity points of every separately continuous function $f:X\times Y\to\mathbb R$ does not coincide with $A\times B$.