Tame functions and Asplund representations of additive Banach groups

We prove that tame functions on the additive group of c0 do not determine its norm topology, answering questions of Megrelishvili and Glasner–Megrelishvili. The proof combines Gowers’ positive-block stabilization with Megrelishvili’s independent-translates configuration. The obstruction extends by homomorphism pullback to Banach spaces containing c0. Full-sphere stabilization gives arbitrarily large subspace balls of approximate constancy and shows that every point of a closed norm ball lies in the tame closure of its boundary sphere. In contrast, a dyadic phase map and the coordinate-rotation construction of Antunes, Ferenczi, Grivaux and Rosendal give a strong-operator embedding of c0 into the isometry group of an Asplund space isomorphic to c0, with almost periodic scalar coefficients. Thus c0 is Asplund but not reflexively representable, settling the Asplund-versus-reflexive problem; even its tame algebra fails to determine the topology. Applications give local copies of βℕ in every proper semigroup compactification and exclude c0 from compact-open automorphism groups of finite-rank compact topological median algebras. For locally compact abelian H, tame functions determine the uniform topology of c0(H) exactly when H is totally disconnected. For second-countable H, these groups are always Asplund representable.

Revised preprint, 5 October 2026. Submitted to RACSAM — Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Serie A. Matemáticas.