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Higher order Gateaux smooth bump functions on Banach spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

David P. McLaughlin
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsKwantlen CollegeSurrey BCCanada V3T 5H8
Jon D. Vanderwerff
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and StatisticsSimon Fraser UniversityBurnaby BCCanada V5A 1S6
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For Г uncountable and p ≥ 1 odd, it is shown ℓp(г) admits no continuous p-times Gateaux differentiable bump function. A space is shown to admit a norm with Hölder derivative on its sphere if it admits a bounded bump function with uniformly directionally Hölder derivative. Some results on smooth approximation are obtained for spaces that admit bounded uniformly Gateaux differentiable bump functions.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1995

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