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Banach spaces with separable duals. (English) Zbl 0706.46015
Summary: It is proved that every Banach space with a separable dual embeds into a space with a shrinking basis. It follows that every separable reflexive space can be embedded in a reflexive space with a basis.

##### MSC:
 46B10 Duality and reflexivity in normed linear and Banach spaces 46B15 Summability and bases; functional analytic aspects of frames in Banach and Hilbert spaces
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