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Strongly regular Banach spaces with big weakly open subsets in the unit ball

Functional Analysis 2026-07-14 v1

Abstract

We construct, given 1<p<1<p<\infty, a Banach space YY and a closed, convex and symmetric set LBYL\subseteq B_Y with the following properties: 1) YY^{**} is strongly regular (henceforth, YY is strongly regular). 2) Every non-empty relatively weakly-star open subset of Lw\overline{L}^{w^*} (the ww^* closure of LL in YY^{**}) has radius one. In particular, every non-empty relatively weakly open subset of LL has radius 11. 3) Every non-empty relatively weakly open subset of LL has diameter, at least, 21p2^\frac{1}{p}. This constitutes an advance to the question whether there exists a strongly regular Banach spaces satisfying that every non-empty relatively weakly open subset of the unit ball has radius 11. As a partial answer, we get that for every ε>0\varepsilon>0 there exists a strongly regular Banach spaces where weakly open subsets have radius, at least, 1ε1-\varepsilon.

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@article{arxiv.2607.12471,
  title  = {Strongly regular Banach spaces with big weakly open subsets in the unit ball},
  author = {Ginés López-Pérez and Abraham Rueda Zoca},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12471},
  year   = {2026}
}

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