On the convexity of some Banach spaces (Q5933947)

In this paper, \(R\) denotes a hyperbolic Riemann surface of conformal infinite type, \(A\) the Banach space of holomorphic quadratic differentials on \(R\) with finite \(L^1-\)norm, and \(B_0\) and \(B\) the predual and dual of \(A\) respectively. The author gives a set of results which describes completely the convexity properties of these three spaces. These properties include ``weak uniform convexity'', ``uniform convexity in weakly compact sets of directions'', ``uniform convexity in every direction'', ``local uniform convexity'', ``weak local uniform convexity'' and other related notions. For instance, the author shows that \(B_0\) is stictly convex but not complex uniformly convex. Such a property for a Banach space is in itself interesting.