Spaces with the Namioka-Phelps property have trivial \(L\)-structure (Q1842018)

We show that an infinite-dimensional Banach space \(X\) with the Namioka- Phelps property does not have any non-trivial \(L\)-summands and we give some applications of this to \(M\)-structure theory. In particular we show that for a reflexive Banach space \(X\), if the space of compact operators forms an \(M\)-ideal in the space of bounded operators then it is the minimal proper \(M\)-ideal.