%0 Journal Article %T Smooth approximations of norms in separable Banach spaces %A Petr H¨˘jek %A Jarno Talponen %J Mathematics %D 2011 %I arXiv %X Let X be a separable real Banach space having a k-times continuously Fr\'{e}chet differentiable (i.e. C^k-smooth) norm where k=1,...,\infty. We show that any equivalent norm on X can be approximated uniformly on bounded sets by C^k-smooth norms. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.6046v2