The Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás point property (Q739559)

The paper under review is devoted to study a strengthening of the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property in both the linear and the bilinear setting. Since the publication of the result of Bishop and Phelps ensuring the density of norm-attaining functionals, a lot of attention has been paid to examine the problem in the vector-valued case. The general idea of this line of research consists in studying the possibility of having a quantitative version of the Bishop-Phelps theorem in the vector-valued setting, which is measured using the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property. The authors say that a pair of Banach spaces \((X,Y)\) satisfies the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás point property (BPBpp) if every operator from \(X\) into \(Y\) can be approximated by operators which attain their norms at the same point where the original operator almost attains its norm. They give a characterization of uniform smoothness in terms of the BPBpp and show that Hilbert spaces are universal as domain spaces for the BPBpp. Also, some stability results for \(\ell_1\) and \(\ell_\infty\) sums are provided. In the bilinear setting, for a uniformly smooth Banach space \(X\) and a Hilbert space \(H\), the authors prove that the pair \((X\times H, \mathbb{K})\) has the BPBpp for bilinear forms if and only if the pair \((X,H^*)\) has the BPBpp for operators. Besides, it is shown that if \(Z\) equals \(C(K)\) or has property \(\beta\), then the pair \((X\times Y, Z)\) has the the BPBpp for bilinear mappings when \((X\times Y, \mathbb{K})\) does, no matter what the Banach spaces \(X\) and \(Y\) are.