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We answer a question posed by B. Sims in 1972, by exhibiting an example of a Banach spaceX such that the numerical radius attaining operators onX are not dense. Actually,X is an old example used by J. Lindenstrauss to solve the analogous problem for norm attaining operators, but the proof for the numerical radius seems to be much more difficult. Our result was conjectured by C. Cardassi in 1985.
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Payá, R. A counterexample on numberical radius attaining operators. Israel J. Math. 79, 83–101 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02764803
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