In this paper we discuss various refinements and generalizations of a theorem of Sankar Dutta and Paul Roberts. Their theorem gives a criterion for $ d$-dimensional Noetherian Cohen-Macaulay local ring to be a system of parameters, i.e., to have height $ d$ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
We study the almost Daugavet property, a generalization of the Daugavet property. We analyze what kind of subspaces and sums of Banach spaces with the almost Daugavet property have this property as well. The main result of the paper is that if $ Z$ such that the quotient space $ X/Z$, then $ Z$ [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]