On uniformly differentiable mappings from $\ell_\infty(Γ)$

Abstract: In 1970 Haskell Rosenthal proved that if $X$ is a Banach space, $\Gamma$ is an infinite index set, and $T:\ell_\infty(\Gamma)\to X$ is a bounded linear operator such that $\inf_{\gamma\in\Gamma}|T(e_\gamma)|>0$ then $T$ acts as an isomorphism on $\ell_\infty(\Gamma')$, for some $\Gamma'\subset\Gamma$ of the same cardinality as $\Gamma$. Our main result is a nonlinear strengthening of this theorem. More precisely, under the assumption of GCH and the regularity of $\Gamma$, we show that if ${F}:B_{\ell_\infty(\Gamma)}\to X$ is uniformly differentiable and such that $\inf_{\gamma\in\Gamma}|{F}(e_\gamma){-F(0)}|>0$ then there exists $x\in B_{\ell_\infty(\Gamma)}$ such that $d{F}(x)[\cdot]$ is a bounded linear operator which acts as an isomorphism on $\ell_\infty(\Gamma')$, for some $\Gamma'\subset\Gamma$ of the same cardinality as $\Gamma$.