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On the size of approximately convex sets in normed spaces

S. Dilworth, Ralph Howard, James Roberts (2000)

Studia Mathematica

Let X be a normed space. A set A ⊆ X is approximately convexif d(ta+(1-t)b,A)≤1 for all a,b ∈ A and t ∈ [0,1]. We prove that every n-dimensional normed space contains approximately convex sets A with ( A , C o ( A ) ) l o g 2 n - 1 and d i a m ( A ) C n ( l n n ) 2 , where ℋ denotes the Hausdorff distance. These estimates are reasonably sharp. For every D>0, we construct worst possible approximately convex sets in C[0,1] such that ℋ(A,Co(A))=(A)=D. Several results pertaining to the Hyers-Ulam stability theorem are also proved.

On the size of the sets of gradients of bump functions and starlike bodies on the Hilbert space

Daniel Azagra, Mar Jiménez-Sevilla (2002)

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France

We study the size of the sets of gradients of bump functions on the Hilbert space 2 , and the related question as to how small the set of tangent hyperplanes to a smooth bounded starlike body in 2 can be. We find that those sets can be quite small. On the one hand, the usual norm of the Hilbert space 2 can be uniformly approximated by C 1 smooth Lipschitz functions ψ so that the cones generated by the ranges of its derivatives ψ ' ( 2 ) have empty interior. This implies that there are C 1 smooth Lipschitz bumps...

On the type constants with respect to systems of characters of a compact abelian group

Aicke Hinrichs (1996)

Studia Mathematica

We prove that there exists an absolute constant c such that for any positive integer n and any system Φ of 2 n characters of a compact abelian group, 2 - n / 2 t Φ ( T ) c n - 1 / 2 t n ( T ) , where T is an arbitrary operator between Banach spaces, t Φ ( T ) is the type norm of T with respect to Φ and t n ( T ) is the usual Rademacher type-2 norm computed with n vectors. For the system of the first 2 n Walsh functions this is even true with c=1. This result combined with known properties of such type norms provides easy access to quantitative versions of...

On the volume method in the study of Auerbach bases of finite-dimensional normed spaces

Anatolij Plichko (1996)

Colloquium Mathematicae

In this note we show that if the ratio of the minimal volume V of n-dimensional parallelepipeds containing the unit ball of an n-dimensional real normed space X to the maximal volume v of n-dimensional crosspolytopes inscribed in this ball is equal to n!, then the relation of orthogonality in X is symmetric. Hence we deduce the following properties: (i) if V/v=n! and if n>2, then X is an inner product space; (ii) in every finite-dimensional normed space there exist at least two different Auerbach...

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