Complex extremal structure in spaces of continuous functions (Q1364771)

Let \(T\) be a completely regular space, \(X\) be a complex normed space and \(C(T,X)\) be the space of all continuous and bounded \(X\)-valued functions on \(T\) equipped with the uniform norm. It is shown that if the dimension of \(X\) is finite then every function in the unit ball of \(C(T,X)\) is expressible as a convex combination of three unitary functions if and only if \(\dim T< \dim X_R\) (here \(\dim T\) denotes the covering dimension of \(T\) and \(X_R\) denotes \(X\) considered as a real normed space). If \(X\) is an infinite-dimensional space the same kind decomposition is possible without restrictions for \(T\). Moreover, it is proved that the identity mapping on the unit ball of an infinite-dimensional complex normed space \(X\) can be expressed as the average of three retractions of the unit ball of \(X\) onto the unit sphere of \(X\). The case, when \(X\) is a complex strictly convex normed space, is considered separately.