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

Abstract: 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. 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, J. A. Jaramillo and L. A. Moraes. As a byproduct, we generalize some results on polynomial reflexivity due to J. Farmer.