Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2016
We say that a Banach space $X$ is ‘nice’ if every extreme operator from any Banach space into
$X$ is a nice operator (that is, its adjoint preserves extreme points). We prove that if
$X$ is a nice almost
$CL$-space, then
$X$ is isometrically isomorphic to
$c_{0}(I)$ for some set
$I$. We also show that if
$X$ is a nice Banach space whose closed unit ball has the Krein–Milman property, then
$X$ is
$l_{\infty }^{n}$ for some
$n\in \mathbb{N}$. The proof of our results relies on the structure topology.