Daugavet property of Banach algebras of holomorphic functions and norm-attaining holomorphic functions

We show that the duals of Banach algebras of scalar-valued bounded holomorphic functions on the open unit ball B-E of a Banach space E lack weak*-strongly exposed points. Consequently, we obtain that some Banach algebras of holomorphic functions on an arbitrary Banach space have the Daugavet property which extends the observation of P. Wojtaszczyk [56]. Moreover, we present a new denseness result by proving that the set of norm-attaining vector-valued holomorphic functions on the open unit ball of a dual Banach space is dense provided that its predual space has the metric pi-property. Besides, we obtain several equivalent statements for the Banach space of vector-valued homogeneous polynomials to be reflexive, which improves the result of J. Mujica [47], J. A. Jaramillo and L. A. Moraes [39]. As a byproduct, we generalize some results on polynomial reflexivity due to J. Farmer [35]. (C) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.