Density of w*-support points I am looking for a simple proof of the following theorem — wasn't able to come up with one myself. Should be a use of the Bishop–Phelps theorem, in some way:
Let $X$ be a Banach space, $D \subset X^*$ a $w^*$-closed, convex set with nonempty interior. Then the $w^*$-support points of $D$ are dense in $\partial D$.
Note: The set of $w^*$-support points of $D$ is defined as:
$\{f \in D : \text{$\exists x_0 \in X$, $x_0\neq0$, s.t $f(x_0)=\sup_{g\in D} g(x_0) $}\}$. Obviously, this set is contained in $\partial D$.
 A: Here is my proof. Let $C$ be the pre-polar of $D$:
$$C = \{x: \sup\nolimits_{f \in D} \lvert f(x)\rvert \leq 1\}.$$
By applying Bishop–Phelps to $C$, we get that $A(C):=\{f \in X^*:\text{$\exists x_0 \in C$ s.t $f(x_0)=\sup_{x \in C} f(x) $}\}$
is dense in $D$.
Fix some $f_0 \in \partial D$. We may choose a sequence $(g_n) \subset D \cap A(C) $ s.t $g_n \to f_0$. We may normalize $g_n$ (i.e, multiply by appropriate scalars, while keeping the same name) s.t $g_n \to f_0$ and now $g_n \in \partial D \cap A(C) $ (as $A(C)$ is invariant under positive scalar multiplication).
Now, i claim that if $g \in A(C) \cap \partial D$, then $g$ is a $w^*$-support point for $D$. Indeed, by Hahn–Banach, there exists some $\phi_0 \in X^{**}$ s.t $ \phi_0(g)=\max \phi_0(D) = 1$.
Let $C^{**} := \{ \phi \in X^{**}:\sup_{f \in D} \lvert\phi(f)\rvert \leq1 \}$. So, we have $\phi_0 \in C^{**}$, $C = C^{**} \cap X $, and by Goldstein, $C$ is $w^*-$dense in $C^{**}$. Therefore, we may choose $(x_n) \subset C$ s.t $x_n \to \phi_0$ ($w^*$ convergence). Thus,
$ x_n(g) = g(x_n) \to \phi_0(g) = 1$. But, since $g \in A(C)$, $\exists x_0 \in C$ s.t $g(x_0)=\sup_{x \in C} g(x) = 1$. But by the definition of $C$, $\lvert x_0(D)\rvert \leq 1$. Hence $g(x_0)=1=\sup_{f \in D}f(x_0)$, i.e, $g$ is a $w^*$-support point for $D$.
We fixed $ f_0 \in \partial D$ and found a sequence $(g_n)$ of $w^*$-support points for $D$ which convegre to $f_0$. Hence the set of $w^*$-support points for $D$ is dense in $\partial D$.
