The Bishop--Phelps--Bollobás Property for Extremally Disconnected Ranges: Separable and Low-Density Domains

Abstract

We prove a Bishop--Phelps--Bollobás theorem for operators into spaces of continuous scalar-valued functions on extremally disconnected compact Hausdorff spaces over both the real and complex scalar fields. The main result applies whenever the density character of the domain is strictly smaller than the Baire number of the underlying compact space. The proof also yields an explicit quadratic Bishop--Phelps--Bollobás modulus. In particular, every separable Banach space paired with such a function space has the Bishop--Phelps--Bollobás property for operators.