On denseness of certain norms in Banach spaces

Abstract

We give several results dealing with denseness of certain classes of norms with many vertex points. We prove that, in Banach spaces with the Mazur or the weak* Mazur intersection property, every ball (convex body) can be uniformly approximated by balls (convex bodies) being the closed convex hull of their strongly vertex points. We also prove that given a countable set F, every norm can be uniformly approximated by norms which are locally linear at each point of F.