On symmetric basic sequences in Lorentz sequence spaces

It is shown that if {y n} is a block of type I of a symmetric basis {x n} in a Banach spaceX, then {y n} is equivalent to {x n} if and only if the closed linear span [y n] of {y n} is complemented inX. The result is used to study the symmetric basic sequences of the dual space of a Lorentz sequence spaced(a, p). Let {x n,f n} be the unit vector basis ofd(a, p), for 1≤p