Geometric characterization of L₁-spaces
The paper is devoted to a description of all real strongly facially symmetric spaces which are isometrically isomorphic to L₁-spaces. We prove that if Z is a real neutral strongly facially symmetric space such that every maximal geometric tripotent from the dual space of Z is unitary, then the space Z is isometrically isomorphic to the space L₁(Ω,Σ,μ), where (Ω,Σ,μ) is an appropriate measure space having the direct sum property.