NESTED SEQUENCES OF BALLS, UNIQUE-
NESS OF HAHN-BANACH EXTENSIONS
AND THE VLASOV PROPERTY

PRADIPTA BANDYOPADHYAY AND ASHOKE K. ROY

Abstract:

In this work we characterize when a single linear functional dominated by a sublinear functional $p$ on a subspace of a real vector space has a unique extension to the whole space dominated by $p$ in terms of nested sequences of ``$p$-balls'' in a quotient space. This is then specialized to obtain characterizations of the phenomenon when a single linear functional on a subspace of a Banach space has unique norm-preserving extension to the whole space, thus localizing and generalizing some recent work of Oja and Põldvere. These results are used to characterize $w^*$-asymptotic norming properties in terms of nested sequences of balls in $X$ extending the notion of Property $(V)$ introduced by Sullivan. A variety of examples and applications of the main results are also presented.