Homeomorphism between close relatives of Hilbertian balls

We present a solution to some problems posed by the author and Kalenda.

We show that the closed ball of nonseparable Hilbert space in its weak topology is homeomorphic to its positive part, as well as to its product with the Hilbert cube.

In the separable setting we obtain that there is a weak homeomorphism of the closed unit ball of $\ell_2$ onto its positive part that preserves the norm, and via a result of Dijkstra and van Mill, the same is true for the ball of $\ell_\infty=\ell_1^*$ in the weak$^*$ topology.

All spaces $B(\kappa,a,b)$ considered by the author and Kalenda are shown to be homeomorphic.

The solution has been found by AI (Chatgpt 5.5), the role of the author has been to ask the right questions, check and understand the answers, and adapt the writing to his personal human taste.