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Bump functions and differentiability in Banach spaces

Author(s): D. J. Ives
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 3583-3588.
MSC (2000): Primary 46G05; Secondary 46T20
Posted: April 24, 2001
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Abstract:

We show that if a Banach space $E$ admits a continuous symmetrically Fréchet subdifferentiable bump function, then $E$ is an Asplund space.


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Additional Information:

D. J. Ives
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Email: dean@dps0.math.ucl.ac.uk

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06086-5
PII: S 0002-9939(01)06086-5
Received by editor(s): April 14, 2000
Posted: April 24, 2001
Communicated by: Jonathan M. Borwein
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society


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