On uniform Bishop-Phelps-Bollobas type approximations of linear operators and preservation of geometric properties

We study uniform epsilon-BPB approximations of bounded linear operators between Banach spaces from a geometric perspective. We show that for sufficiently small positive values of epsilon, many geometric properties like smoothness, norm attainment and extremality of operators are preserved under such approximations. We present examples of pairs of Banach spaces satisfying non-trivial norm preserving uniform epsilon-BPB approximation property in the global sense. We also study these concepts in case of bounded linear operators between Hilbert spaces. Our approach in the present article leads to the improvement and generalization of some earlier results in this context. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.