Renormings preserving local geometry at countably many points in spheres of Banach spaces and applications (Q6110823)

Renorming theory investigates whether equivalent norms with certain properties of convexity or smoothness (or both) can be constructed on a given Banach space \(X\). It is well known that the existence of specific norms on \(X\) are tighly related with the isomorphic properties of \(X\), and in fact several natural isomorphism classes can be characterized by the existence of specific norms. The present article answers two renorming problems which were stated in the 2022 monograph by \textit{A. J. Guirao} et al. [Renormings in Banach spaces. A toolbox. Cham: Birkhäuser (2022; Zbl 1508.46001)]. More precisely, the author shows that if \(X\) is a separable Banach space with an equivalent \(\mathcal{C}^k\)-smooth norm, then \(X\) has a \(\mathcal{C}^k\)-smooth norm which is not uniformly Gateaux smooth in any direction, with a dentable unit ball. The proof of this result uses in particular a theorem by \textit{P.~Hájek} and \textit{J.~Talponen} [Q. J. Math. 65, No.~3, 957--969 (2014; Zbl 1315.46009)] which states that if a separable space has a \(\mathcal{C}^k\)-smooth norm, any equivalent norm can be uniformly approximated on bounded sets by \(\mathcal{C}^k\)-smooth norms. It is also shown that for any set \(\Gamma\), the space \(c_0(\Gamma)\) has an equivalent \(\mathcal{C}^\infty\)-smooth norm which locally depends on finitely many coordinates, with a dentable unit ball, which is not uniformly Gateaux smooth in any direction.