We exhibit new classes of Banach spaces that have the strong-1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property and the 1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property by considering direct-sums of Banach spaces. We introduce the notion of sectional strong-1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property and show that in c0c_0-direct sum of reflexive spaces, proximinal and factor reflexive spaces with the sectional strong-1i21\frac{i}{2}-ball property have the strong-1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property. We give examples of proximinal hyperplanes in c0c_0 that fail the 1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property and show that this property is in general, not preserved under finite intersections or sums. We show that the range of a bi-contractive projection in ℓ∞\ell^{\infty} has the strong-1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property. For a separable subspace Y⊂XY \subset X with the strong-1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property and for any positive, σ\sigma-finite, non-atomic measure space (Ω,A,μ)(\Omega, {\mathcal A}, \mu), we show that L1(μ,Y)L^1(\mu,Y) has the strong-1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property in L1(μ,X)L^1(\mu,X). We show that for any compact set Ω\Omega and Y⊂XY \subset X with the 1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property, C(Ω,Y)C(\Omega,Y) has the 1121\frac{1}{2}-ball property in C(Ω,X)C(\Omega,X).

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T. S. S. R. K. Rao

Indian Statistical Institute, R. V. College P.O., Bangalore 560059, India

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