There is an equivalent norm on \(\ell_1\) that has the fixed point property (Q2479282): Difference between revisions

A Banach space has the fixed point property if, for every nonempty, closed, bounded, convex subset \(C\) of the Banach space, every nonexpansive mapping of \(C\) into itself has a fixed point. Whether Banach spaces with the fixed point property must be reflexive has been a well-known and much-studied problem in metric fixed point theory. In this important article, the author uses a renorming of the space \(\ell^1\) of absolutely summable sequences to show that there exist nonreflexive Banach spaces with the fixed point property.