Let (E, ρ) and (E*ρ*) be a real Banach space and its dual. Restrepo has shown in [4] that, if p and ρ* are both Fréchet differentiable, E is reflexive. The purpose of this note is to show that Fréchet differentiability cannot be replaced by Gateaux differentiability. This answers negatively a question raised by Wulbert [5]. In particular, we will renorm a certain nonreflexive space with a smooth norm whose dual is also smooth.
A generalization of a renorming theorem by Lin and a new nonreflexive space with the fixed point property which is nonisomorphic tol1
