Uniqueness of unconditional basis of infinite direct sums of quasi-Banach spaces

Abstract

This paper is devoted to providing a unifying approach to the study of the uniqueness of unconditional bases, up to equivalence and permutation, of infinite direct sums of quasi-Banach spaces. Our new approach to this type of problem permits to show that a wide class of vector-valued sequence spaces have a unique unconditional basis up to a permutation. In particular, solving a problem from Albiac and Leránoz (J Math Anal Appl 374(2):394–401, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2010.09.048) we show that if X is quasi-Banach space with a strongly absolute unconditional basis then the infinite direct sum ell _{1}(X) has a unique unconditional basis up to a permutation, even without knowing whether X has a unique unconditional basis or not. Applications to the uniqueness of unconditional structure of infinite direct sums of non-locally convex Orlicz and Lorentz sequence spaces, among other classical spaces, are also obtained as a by-product of our work.