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Smooth and polyhedral approximation in Banach spaces

Functional Analysis 2022-06-22 v3

Abstract

We show that norms on certain Banach spaces XX can be approximated uniformly, and with arbitrary precision, on bounded subsets of XX by CC^{\infty} smooth norms and polyhedral norms. In particular, we show that this holds for any equivalent norm on c0(Γ)c_0(\Gamma), where Γ\Gamma is an arbitrary set. We also give a necessary condition for the existence of a polyhedral norm on a weakly compactly generated Banach space, which extends a well-known result of Fonf.

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@article{arxiv.1509.00369,
  title  = {Smooth and polyhedral approximation in Banach spaces},
  author = {Victor Bible and Richard J. Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.00369},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages

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