On the size of the sets of gradients of bump functions and starlike bodies on the Hilbert space
We study the size of the sets of gradients of bump functions on the Hilbert space , and the related question as to how small the set of tangent hyperplanes to a smooth bounded starlike body in can be. We find that those sets can be quite small. On the one hand, the usual norm of the Hilbert space can be uniformly approximated by smooth Lipschitz functions so that the cones generated by the ranges of its derivatives have empty interior. This implies that there are smooth Lipschitz bumps...