Subdifferentiability and polyhedrality of the norm

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Abstract: In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the norm on an infinite dimensional Banach space to be sub differentiable, for various classes of Bananch spaces.


As the author explains, it can be seen that for \(C^*\)-algebras the concepts of strong subdifferentiability of the norm (SSD) and weak Hahn-Banach smoothness coincide. In Theorem~4 it is shown that the weak Namioka-Phelps property (which in general implies SSD of the norm (Theorem~1)) adds to the properties that characterize the norm being SSD in \(C^*\)-algebras. Next, the author investigates when the norm of an \(L_1\)-predual space \(X\) is SSD. In Theorems~8 and 6 it is shown that then \(X\) is quasi polyhedral and is a predual of some \(\ell_1(\Gamma)\), where \(\Gamma\) is infinite and discrete. Concerning the commutative case, the paper ends by proving (Theorem~10) that the only weak Hahn-Banach smooth function algebras are the finite-dimensional \(\ell_\infty\)-spaces, i.e., \(\mathbb{C}^n\) with supremum norm. Throughout, the results are supported by illustrating examples and informative remarks.











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