Banach Spaces that are Uniformly Rotund in Weakly Compact Sets of Directions

Abstract

In a Banach space, the directional modulus of rotundity, δ (ϵ, z), measures the minimum depth at which the midpoints of all chords of the unit ball which are parallel to z and of length at least ϵ are buried beneath the surface. A Banach space is uniformly rotund in every direction (URED) if δ (ϵ, z) is positive for every positive ϵ and every nonzero element z. This concept of directionalized uniform rotundity was introduced by Garkavi [6] to characterize those Banach spaces in which every bounded subset has at most one Čebyšev center.