This is an announcement for the paper “Delta- and Daugavet-points in Banach spaces” by Trond Arnold Abrahamsenhttps://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Abrahamsen%2C+T+A, Rainis Hallerhttps://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Haller%2C+R, Vegard Limahttps://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Lima%2C+V, Katriin Pirkhttps://arxiv.org/search/math?searchtype=author&query=Pirk%2C+K. Abstract: A $\Delta$-point $x$ of a Banach space is a norm one element that is arbitrarily close to convex combinations of elements in the unit ball that are almost at distance $2$ from $x$. If, in addition, every point in the unit ball is arbitrarily close to such convex combinations, $x$ is a Daugavet-point. A Banach space $X$ has the Daugavet property if and only if every norm one element is a Daugavet-point. We show that $\Delta$- and Daugavet-points are the same in $L_1$-spaces, $L_1$-preduals, as well as in a big class of Müntz spaces. We also provide an example of a Banach space where all points on the unit sphere are $\Delta$-points, but where none of them are Daugavet-points. We also study the property that the unit ball is the closed convex hull of its $\Delta$-points. This gives rise to a new diameter two property that we call the convex diametral diameter two property. We show that all $C(K)$ spaces, $K$ infinite compact Hausdorff, as well as all Müntz spaces have this property. Moreover, we show that this property is stable under absolute sums.

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