Journal Home Page Cumulative Index List of all Volumes Complete Contentsof this Volume Previous Article Journal of Convex Analysis 27 (2020), No. 3, 979--988Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2020 On the Structure Topology on the Set of all Extreme Points of the Closed Unit Ball of the Dual of a Banach Space Ana M. Cabrera-Serrano Dep. de Análisis Matemático, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Spain anich7@correo.ugr.es Juan F. Mena-Jurado Dep. de Análisis Matemático, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Spain jfmena@ugr.es [Abstract-pdf] Let $X$ be a real Banach space, and let $E_{X^*}$ stand for the set of all extreme points of the closed unit ball of $X^*$, endowed with the Alfsen-Effros structure topology [see E.\,M.\,Alfsen and E.\,G.\,Effros, {\it Structure in real Banach spaces I, II}, Annals of Math. 96 (1972) 98--128; ibid.\ 96 (1972) 129--73]. The fact that, for a given $s^* \in E_{X^*}$, the set $\{\pm s^* \}$ is structurally open can be characterized in many apparently different ways, whenever $X$ is nice. (We recall that $X$ is said to be nice if every extreme operator from any Banach space to $X$ is a nice operator, i.e. its adjoint preserves extreme points.) As a consequence, we obtain new characterizations (as well as new proofs of known characterizations) of those nice Banach spaces which are isometrically isomorphic to $c_0(I)$ for some set $I$. Keywords: Banach space, extreme operator, nice operator, structure topology. MSC: 46B20, 46B04 [ Fulltext-pdf  (124  KB)] for subscribers only.