Stability of the fixed point property in Hilbert spaces (Q5695752)

A Banach space has the weak fixed-point property (wc-fpp, = fpp in reflexive spaces) if every nonexpansive self-map of a nonempty weakly compact convex subset has a fixed point. Given a Banach space with the wc-fpp, the stability problem of the wc-fpp is the problem of determining a number \(k > 1\) such that any isomorphic Banach space \(Y\) with \(d(X, Y) < k\) has the wc-fpp, where \[ d(X,Y) = \inf \{\| U\| \| U^{-1}\| : U: X \rightarrow Y \text{ is a linear isomorphism}\}. \] \textit{P.-K. Lin} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 127, 3573--3581 (1999; Zbl 0944.47035)] proved that if a Banach space \(X\) is isomorphic to a Hilbert space \(H\) with \(d(X, H) < \sqrt{(5+\sqrt{13})/2}\), then \(X\) has the fpp. In the present paper, the author proves that the conclusion of the result of Lin remains true under the weaker hypothesis that \(d(X, H) < \sqrt{(5+\sqrt{17})/2}\).