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The uniqueness of unconditional basis of the 2-convexified Tsirelson space, revisited

One of the hallmarks in the study of the classification of Banach spaces with a unique (normalized) unconditional basis was the unexpected result by Bourgain, Casazza, Lindenstrauss, and Tzafriri from their 1985 Memoir that the 2-convexified Tsirelson space T(2) had that property (up to equivalence and permutation). Indeed, on one hand, finding a “pathological” space (i.e., not built out as a direct sum of the only three classical sequence spaces with a unique unconditional basis) shattered the hopeful optimism of attaining a satisfactory description of all Banach spaces which enjoy that important structural feature. On the other hand it encouraged furthering a research topic that had received relatively little attention until then. After forty years, the advances on the subject have shed light onto the underlying patterns shared by those spaces with a unique unconditional bases belonging to the same class, which has led to reproving the original theorems with fewer technicalities. Our motivation in this note is to revisit the aforementioned result on the uniqueness of unconditional basis of T(2) from the current state-of-art of the subject and to fill in some details that we missed from the original proof.