A note on asymptotically isometric copies of $l^1$ and $c_0$

Abstract

Nonreflexive Banach spaces that are complemented in their bidual by an L-projection - like preduals of von Neumann algebras or the Hardy space $H^1$ - contain, roughly speaking, many copies of $l^1$ which are very close to isometric copies. Such $l^1$-copies are known to fail the fixed point property. Similar dual results hold for $c_0$.