Complement of a Banach space in its double dual.

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A closed subspace $E$ of a Banach space $X$ is said to complemented if there exists a closed subspace $F$ of $X$ such that $E+F=X$ and $E\cap F=\{0\}$.
I was thinking whether $X$ is complemented in $X^{**}$?

Best Answer

No. For example $c_0$ is not complemented in its double dual $l^\infty$ (with detailed reasons here). But it is true that $X^*$ is always complemented in $X^{***}$. (and by this $c_0$ cannot be isomorphic to a dual space)

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