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We give a new approach to the Ramsey-type results of Gowers on block bases in Banach spaces and apply our results to prove the Gowers dichotomy in F-spaces.
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The second author was supported by NSF grant DMS-0701552.
The third author was supported by NSF grant DMS-0555670.
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Androulakis, G., Dilworth, S.J. & Kalton, N.J. A new approach to the Ramsey-type games and the Gowers dichotomy in F-spaces. Combinatorica 30, 359–385 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-010-2507-1
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