Transitivity of the norm on Banach spaces.
Characterizations of almost transitive superreflexive Banach spaces
Almost transitive superreflexive Banach spaces have been considered in [7] (see also [4] and [6]), where it is shown that such spaces are uniformly convex and uniformly smooth. We prove that convex transitive Banach spaces are either almost transitive and superreflexive (hence uniformly smooth) or extremely rough. The extreme roughness of a Banach space means that, for every element in the unit sphere of , we have We note that, in general, the property of convex transitivity for a Banach...
Dual spaces generated by the interior of the set of norm attaining functionals
We characterize some isomorphic properties of Banach spaces in terms of the set of norm attaining functionals. The main result states that a Banach space is reflexive as soon as it does not contain ℓ₁ and the dual unit ball is the w*-closure of the convex hull of elements contained in the "uniform" interior of the set of norm attaining functionals. By assuming a very weak isometric condition (lack of roughness) instead of not containing ℓ₁, we also obtain a similar result. As a consequence of the...
Unitary Banach algebras
In a Banach algebra an invertible element which has norm one and whose inverse has norm one is called unitary. The algebra is unitary if the closed convex hull of the unitary elements is the closed unit ball. The main examples are the C*-algebras and the ℓ₁ group algebra of a group. In this paper, different characterizations of unitary algebras are obtained in terms of numerical ranges, dentability and holomorphy. In the process some new characterizations of C*-algebras are given.
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