On the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for numerical radius (Q1724207)

Summary: We study the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for numerical radius (in short, BPBp-nu) and find sufficient conditions for Banach spaces to ensure the BPBp-nu. Among other results, we show that \(L_1 \left(\mu\right)\)-spaces have this property for every measure \(\mu\). On the other hand, we show that every infinite-dimensional separable Banach space can be renormed to fail the BPBp-nu. In particular, this shows that the Radon-Nikodým property (even reflexivity) is not enough to get BPBp-nu.