Characterizations of some rotundity properties in terms of farthest points

Abstract

We characterize rotund, uniformly rotund, locally uniformly rotund and compactly locally uniformly rotund spaces in terms of sets of (almost) farthest points from the unit sphere using the generalized diameter. For this we introduce few remotality properties using the sets of almost farthest points. As a consequence, we obtain some characterizations of the aforementioned rotundity properties in terms of existing proximinality notions.