Analysis in Banach spaces

The thesis consists of two papers and one preprint. The two papers are de- voted to the approximation properties of Lipschitz-free spaces. In the first pa- per we prove that the Lipschitz-free space over a doubling metric space has the bounded approximation property. In particular, the Lipschitz-free space over a closed subset of Rn has the bounded approximation property. We also show that the Lipschitz-free spaces over ℓ1 and over ℓn 1 admit a monotone finite-dimensional Schauder decomposition. In the second paper we improve this work and obtain even a Schauder basis in the Lipschitz-free spaces over ℓ1 and ℓn 1 . The topic of the preprint is rigidity of ℓ∞ and ℓn ∞ with respect to uniformly differentiable map- pings. Our main result is a non-linear analogy of the classical result on rigidity of ℓ∞ with respect to non-weakly compact linear operators by Rosenthal, and it generalises the theorem on non-complementability of c0 in ℓ∞ due to Phillips.