Some results on almost square Banach spaces (Q252933)

In [\textit{T. A. Abrahamsen} et al., ibid. 434, No. 2, 1549--1565 (2016; Zbl 1335.46006)] almost square Banach spaces were introduced and studied. A Banach space \(X\) is almost square if for every finite set of points \(x_1,\dots,x_n\in X\) with norm one and for every \(\varepsilon>0\) there is a \(y\in X\) with norm one such that \(\| x_i+y\|\leq 1+\varepsilon\) for all \(i\in\{1,\dots,n\}\). The prototype of an almost square space is \(c_0\). It turns out that every almost square space has the strong diameter \(2\) property, that is, every finite convex combination of slices of its unit ball has diameter \(2\). In [loc. cit.] it was shown that every Banach space containing a complemented copy of \(c_0\) can be equivalently renormed to be almost square. The main result of the paper under review improves the aforementioned result by proving that every Banach space which contains an isomorphic copy of \(c_0\) admits an almost square norm. The authors also show that the \(N\)-fold symmetric projective tensor product of an almost square Banach space has the strong diameter \(2\) property.