MR2370688 (2009e:46013) Navarro-Pascual, J. C.; Mena-Jurado, J. F.; Sánchez-Lirola, M. G. A two-dimensional inequality and uniformly continuous retractions. J. Math. Anal. Appl. 339 (2008), no. 1, 719--734. (Reviewer: Diana Caponetti) 46B20 (46E40)

Let X be an infinite-dimensional uniformly convex Banach space and let BX and SX be its closed unit ball and unit sphere, respectively. The main result of the paper is that the identity mappingon BX can be expressed as the mean of n uniformly continuous retractions from BX onto SX for every n >= 3. Then, the authors observe that the result holds under a property weaker thanuniform convexity, satisfied by any complex Banach space, so that the result generalizes that of[A. Jim´enez-Vargas et al., Studia Math. 135 (1999), no. 1, 75–81; MR1686372 (2000b:46025)]. Asan application the extremal structure of spaces of vector-valued uniformly continuous mappings is studied.