Some remarks on smooth renormings of Banach spaces

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2017.05.077MaRDI QIDQ2014094zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Petr Hájek, Tommaso Russo

Publication date 10 August 2017

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01384

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^k\)-smooth renormings asymptotic structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isomorphic theory (including renorming) of Banach spaces (46B03) Asymptotic theory of Banach spaces (46B06)

Abstract: We prove that in every separable Banach space

X

with a Schauder basis and a

C^{k}

-smooth norm it is possible to approximate, uniformly on bounded sets, every equivalent norm with a

C^{k}

-smooth one in a way that the approximation is improving as fast as we wish on the elements depending only on the tail of the Schauder basis. Our result solves a problem from the recent monograph of Guirao, Montesinos and Zizler.

Review text

The approximation of norms on Banach spaces by \(C^k\)-smooth norms is a delicate issue, and to this day it is not known if the existence of a \(C^1\)-smooth equivalent norm on a Banach space \(X\) implies that every equivalent norm can be approximated uniformly on bounded sets by \(C^1\)-smooth norms. This is known, however, for separable Banach spaces \(X\), and recently it was shown in full generality by \textit{P. Hájek} and \textit{J. Talponen} [Q. J. Math. 65, No. 3, 957--969 (2014; Zbl 1315.46009)] that, in the separable frame, \(C^k\)-approximation also works when \(k>1\). The present work provides a quantitative improvement of this result for separable Banach spaces with a basis. Precisely, it is shown that a \(C^k\)-smooth approximating norm exists such that the approximation is arbitrarily good on the tails of the basis. In other words, the constructed \(C^k\)-smooth norm has the same asymptotic structure as the original norm. This interesting result could bear consequences on isometric or quasi-isometric questions, such as fixed point problems.

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