Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via C. Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy
Abstract:
We give a simple geometric proof of a result by Davis and Johnson that every nonreflexive Banach space admits an equivalent norm in which is not isometric to a dual space. Moreover, our renorming keeps unchanged the original norm on a given finite-codimensional subspace and makes this subspace norm-one complemented.