DUAL DIFFERENTIATION SPACES

We show that if $(X,\Vert \cdot \Vert )$ is a Banach space that admits an equivalent locally uniformly rotund norm and the set of all norm-attaining functionals is residual then the dual norm $\Vert \cdot \Vert ^{\ast }$ on $X^{\ast }$ is Fréchet at the points of a dense subset of $X^{\ast }$ . This answers the main open problem in a paper by Guirao, Montesinos and Zizler [‘Remarks on the set of norm-attaining functionals and differentiability’, Studia Math. 241 (2018), 71–86].

On Locally Uniformly Rotund Renormings in C(K) Spaces

A characterization of the Banach spaces of type C(K) that admit an equivalent locally uniformly rotund norm is obtained, and a method to apply it to concrete spaces is developed. As an application the existence of such renorming is deduced when K is a Namioka–Phelps compact or for some particular class of Rosenthal compacta, results which were originally proved with ad hoc methods.

A dual differentiation space without an equivalent locally uniformly rotund norm

A Banach space (X, ∥ · ∥) is said to be a dual differentiation space if every continuous convex function defined on a non-empty open convex subset A of X* that possesses weak* continuous subgradients at the points of a residual subset of A is Fréchet differentiable on a dense subset of A. In this paper we show that if we assume the continuum hypothesis then there exists a dual differentiation space that does not admit an equivalent locally uniformly rotund norm.

Asplund spaces and a variant of weak uniform rotundity

We introduce a property formally weaker than weak uniform rotundity, which we call equatorial weak uniform rotundity. We show that an equatorially weakly uniformly rotund norm need not be weakly locally uniformly rotund. Nevertheless, we show that an equatorially weakly uniformly rotund Banach space is an Asplund space.

On a Banach space without a weak mid-point locally uniformly rotund norm

In this paper we show that (i) l∞ does not admit an equivalent weak mid-point locally uniformly rotund norm and (ii) l∞ / c0 does not admit an equivalent rotund norm.

On projectional resolution of identity on the duals of certain Banach spaces

A consequence of the main proposition includes results of Tacon, and John and Zizler and says: If a Banach space X possesses a continuous Gâteaux differentiable function with bounded nonempty support and with norm-weak continuous derivative, then its dual X* admits a projectional resolution of the identity and a continuous linear one-to-one mapping into c0 (Γ). The proof is easy and selfcontained and does not use any complicated geometrical lemma. If the space X is in addition weakly countably determined, then X* has an equivalent dual locally uniformly rotund norm. It is also shown that l∞ admits no continuous Gâteaux differentiable function with bounded nonempty support.

A renorming theorem for dual spaces

If the second dual of a Banach space E is smooth at each point of a certain norm dense subset, then its first dual admits a long sequence of norm one projections, and these projections have ranges which are suitable for a transfinite induction argument. This leads to the construction of an equivalent locally uniformly rotund norm and a Markuschevich basis for E*.