Equivalent norms with an extremely nonlineable set of norm attaining functionals

Abstract: We present a construction that enables one to find Banach spaces $X$ whose sets $NA(X)$ of norm attaining functionals do not contain two-dimensional subspaces and such that, consequently, $X$ does not contain proximinal subspaces of finite codimension greater than one, extending the results recently provided by Read and Rmoutil. Roughly speaking, we construct an equivalent renorming with the requested properties for every Banach space $X$ where the set $NA(X)$ for the original norm is not "too large". The construction can be applied to every Banach space containing $c_0$ and having a countable system of norming functionals, in particular, to separable Banach spaces containing $c_0$. We also provide some geometric properties of the norms we have constructed.