On approximate preservation of orthogonality and its application to isometries

Abstract: Motivated by the famous Blanco-Koldobsky-Turn\v{s}ek characterization of isometries, we study the \textit{approximate preservation of Birkhoff-James orthogonality by a linear operator between Banach spaces}. In particular, we investigate various geometric and analytic properties related to such preservation on finite-dimensional polyhedral Banach spaces. As an application of the results obtained here, we present refinements of the Blanco-Koldobsky-Turn\v{s}ek characterization of isometries on certain Banach spaces.