La propriété de Radon-Nikodym dans un dual, d'après C. Stegall
We study the local dual spaces of a Banach space X, which can be described as the subspaces of X* that have the properties that the principle of local reflexivity attributes to X as a subspace of X**. We give several characterizations of local dual spaces, which allow us to show many examples. Moreover, every separable space X has a separable local dual Z, and we can choose Z with the metric approximation property if X has it. We also show that a separable space containing no...
The notion of functions dependent locally on finitely many coordinates plays an important role in the theory of smoothness and renormings on Banach spaces, especially when higher order smoothness is involved. In this note we investigate the structural properties of Banach spaces admitting (arbitrary) bump functions depending locally on finitely many coordinates.