Diameter two properties and the Radon-Nikodým property in Orlicz spaces (Q2196733)

Recall that the unit ball of a Banach space with the Radon-Nikodým property contains slices of arbitrarily small diameter. On the other end of the spectrum, there are Banach spaces with the diameter two property, that is, every nonempty relatively weakly open subset (in particular, a slice) of the unit ball has diameter two. In the paper under review, the authors investigate when the Orlicz function and sequence spaces \(L_{\varphi}\) and \(\ell_{\varphi}\) possess the Radon-Nikodým or the diameter two property. In the first part of their paper, they prove that \begin{itemize} \item[(1)] \(L_{\varphi}\) has the the Radon-Nikodým property if and only if \(\varphi\) is an \(N\)-function at infinity and satisfies the appropriate \(\Delta_2\)-condition; \item[(2)] \(\ell_{\varphi}\) has the the Radon-Nikodým property if and only if \(\varphi\) satisfies the \(\Delta^0_2\)-condition. \end{itemize} In the second part of the paper, the authors begin by rediscovering (see Theorem 4.5 in the paper) the characterization of the local diameter two property in the language of extensions (see Theorem 3.25 in [\textit{J. Langemets}, Geometrical structure in diameter 2 Banach spaces. Tartu: University of Tartu Press; Tartu: Univ. Tartu, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics (Diss.) (2015; Zbl 1355.46003)]). Then they show that the only Orlicz function space with the Daugavet property is \(L_1\). Finally, they prove in Theorem 4.18 that \begin{itemize} \item[(3)] \(L_{\varphi}\) has the strong diameter two property if and only if \(\varphi\) is an \(N\)-function at infinity and does not satisfy the appropriate \(\Delta_2\)-condition; \item[(4)] \(\ell_{\varphi}\) has the strong diameter two property if and only if \(\varphi\) does not satisfy the appropriate \(\Delta_2\)-condition. \end{itemize} Note that, by Theorem 4.4 in [\textit{R. Haller} et al., Mediterr. J. Math. 16, No. 2, Paper No. 35, 17 p. (2019; Zbl 1419.46009)], the authors actually get that \(L_{\varphi}\) and \(\ell_{\varphi}\) even have the symmetric strong diameter two property.