文摘
We study smoothness and strict convexity of (the bidual) of Banach spaces in the presence of diameter 2 properties.We prove that the strong diameter 2 property prevents the bidual from being strictly convex and being smooth, and we initiate the investigation whether the same is true for the (local) diameter 2 property. We also give characterizations of the following property for a Banach space \({X}\): “For every slice \({S}\) of \({B_X}\) and every norm-one element \({x}\) in \({S}\), there is a point \({y \in S}\) in distance as close to 2 as we want.” Spaces with this property are shown to have non-smooth bidual.