This paper deals with homeomorphisms F: X → Y, between Banach spaces X and Y, which are of the form $F\left(x\right):=F̃x^{(2n+1)}$ where $F̃:X^{2n+1}\to Y$ is a continuous (2n+1)-linear operator.

We give an example of a fourth degree polynomial which does not satisfy Rolle’s Theorem in the unit ball of $l_2$.

We introduce a weaker version of the polynomial Daugavet property: a Banach space X has the alternative polynomial Daugavet property (APDP) if every weakly compact polynomial P: X → X satisfies $ma{x}_{\omega \in }\left|\right|Id+\omega P\left|\right|=1+\left|\right|P\left|\right|$. We study the stability of the APDP by c₀-, ${\ell }_{\infty }$- and ℓ₁-sums of Banach spaces. As a consequence, we obtain examples of Banach spaces with the APDP, namely $L_{\infty }(\mu ,X)$ and C(K,X), where X has the APDP.

Given an operator ideal ℐ, a Banach space E has the ℐ-approximation property if the identity operator on E can be uniformly approximated on compact subsets of E by operators belonging to ℐ. In this paper the ℐ-approximation property is studied in projective tensor products, spaces of linear functionals, spaces of linear operators/homogeneous polynomials, spaces of holomorphic functions and their preduals.