The Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property for bilinear forms and polynomials

Abstract

For a σ-finite measure μ and a Banach space Y we study the Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás property (BPBP) for bilinear forms on L₁(μ) × Y, that is, a (continuous) bilinear form on L₁(μ) × Y almost attaining its norm at (f₀, y₀) can be approximated by bilinear forms attaining their norms at unit vectors close to (f₀, y₀). In case that Y is an Asplund space we characterize the Banach spaces Y satisfying this property. We also exhibit some class of bilinear forms for which the BPBP does not hold, though the set of norm attaining bilinear forms in that class is dense.