Reflexive Banach spaces without equivalent norms which are uniformly convex or uniformly differentiable in every direction
In this note we deal with a version of James' Theorem for numerical radius, which was already considered in [4]. First of all, let us recall that this well known classical result states that a Banach space satisfying that all the (bounded and linear) functionals attain the norm, has to be reflexive [16].
The aim of this paper is to show that for every Banach space (X, || · ||) containing asymptotically isometric copy of the space c0 there is a bounded, closed and convex set C ⊂ X with the Chebyshev radius r(C) = 1 such that for every k ≥ 1 there exists a k-contractive mapping T : C → C with [...] for any x ∊ C.
It is proved that a representable non-separable Banach space does not admit uniformly Gâteaux-smooth norms. This is true in particular for C(K) spaces where K is a separable non-metrizable Rosenthal compact space.