Antipodal sets in infinite dimensional Banach spaces

Abstract

The following strengthening of the Elton-Odell theorem on the existence of a $(1+\epsilon)-$separated sequences in the unit sphere $S_X$ of an infinite dimensional Banach space $X$ is proved: There exists an infinite subset $S\subseteq S_X$ and a constant $d>1$, satisfying the property that for every $x,y\in S$ with $x\neq y$ there exists $f\in B_{X^*}$ such that $d\leq f(x)-f(y)$ and $f(y)\leq f(z)\leq f(x)$, for all $z\in S$.