Smooth bump functions and the geometry of Banach spaces. A brief survey

DOI10.1016/S0723-0869(02)80017-2zbMath1014.46007MaRDI QIDQ1611553

R. Fry, S. McManus

Publication date: 24 July 2003

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

convexitysmoothnessunit ballbump functionBanch spaceexistence of smooth partitions of unity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to functional analysis (46-02) Derivatives of functions in infinite-dimensional spaces (46G05)

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