New results on weakly compact sets (Q1306938)

The authors obtain the following results: (i) Let \(E\) be a Banach space and \(A\) a weakly compact set in \(E\). Then each continuous convex function defined on an open convex subset \(D\) of \(E\) is uniformly differentiable with respect to \(A\) at each point of some dense \(G_\delta\) subset of \(D\); (ii) For each separable Banach space \(E\) and each weakly compact set \(A\) in \(E\), there is a continuous norm \(\||\cdot\||\) on \(E^*\) such that (a) \(\sup\{|\langle x^*,x\rangle|; x\in A\}\leq\||x^*\||\) for each \(x^*\in E^*\); (b) \((E^*,\||\cdot\||)\) is separable; (c) each bounded set in \(E^*\) admits weak\(^*\) slices of arbitrarily small \(\||\cdot\||\) diameter; (d) each weak\(^*\) compact convex set in \(E^*\) is the weak\(^*\) closed convex hull of its weak\(^*\) \(\||\cdot\||\)-strongly exposed points.