Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access published online on December 15, 2006
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, doi:10.1112/blms/bdl022
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© 2006 London Mathematical Society
Trees, Gâteaux norms and a problem of Haydon
Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET, United Kingdom rjs209{at}cam.ac.uk
Received 27 June 2005. Revision received 22 November 2005.
We give a sufficient condition for the existence of an equivalent Gâteaux smooth norm on
0
, where
is a tree. Using this, we prove that if
0
admits an equivalent strictly convex norm, then it admits an equivalent Gâteaux smooth norm. This resolves an open problem from Haydon's study of trees in renorming theory.