We introduce a new class of Banach spaces, called generalized-lush spaces (GL-spaces for short), which contains almost-CL-spaces, separable lush spaces (in particular, separable C-rich subspaces of C(K)), and even the two-dimensional space with hexagonal norm. We find that the space C(K,E) of vector-valued continuous functions is a GL-space whenever E is, and show that the set of GL-spaces is stable under c₀-, l₁- and $l_{\infty }$-sums. As an application, we prove that the Mazur-Ulam property holds for a larger...

Let X and Y be Banach spaces. An operator G: X → Y is a Daugavet center if ‖G +T‖ = ‖G‖+‖T‖ for every rank-1 operator T. For every Daugavet center G we consider a certain set of operators acting from X, so-called G-narrow operators. We prove that if J is the natural embedding of Y into a Banach space E, then E can be equivalently renormed so that an operator T is (J ○ G)-narrow if and only if T is G-narrow. We study G-rich subspaces of X: Z ⊂ X is called G-rich if the quotient map q: X → X/Z is...