Generalized numerical index and denseness of numerical peak holomorphic functions on a Banach space (Q2015430)

Given a complex Banach space \(X\), let \(X^*\) be the topological dual space of \(X\), \(B_X\) be the unit ball of \(X\) and \(A_b(B_X,X)\) denote the Banach space of all bounded continuous functions on \(B_X\) which are holomorphic on the interior of \(B_X\). The numerical radius of \(f\in A_b(B_X,X)\) is the number \[ v(f)=\sup\bigl\{|x^*(f(x))|:x\in B_X,\,x^*\in B_{X^*},\, x^*(x)=1\bigr\}. \] When \(H\) is a subspace of \(A_b(B_X,X)\), the \(H\)-numerical index of \(X\) is defined as the infimum of the numerical radius of all norm-one elements of \(H\). When \(H\) is the space of \(k\)-homogeneous polynomials on \(X\), the \(H\)-numerical index of \(X\) is the \(k\)-order polynomial numerical index of \(X\) [\textit{Y. S. Choi} et al., Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 49, No. 1, 39--52 (2006; Zbl 1122.46002)]. The authors give conditions on a decomposition of the space \(X\) to get that the \(H\)-numerical index of \(X\) is the infimum of the \(H\)-numerical index of a suitable family of increasing subspaces of \(X\). Some results on denseness of numerical peak holomorphic functions are also obtained.