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

Anatolij Plichko

Colloquium Mathematicae (1996)

  • Volume: 69, Issue: 2, page 267-270
  • ISSN: 0010-1354

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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 bases and (iii) the finite-dimensional normed space X is an inner product space provided any two Auerbach bases are isometrically equivalent. Property (i) generalizes a result of Lenz [8], and (iii) answers a question of R. J. Knowles and T. A. Cook [7].

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Plichko, Anatolij. "On the volume method in the study of Auerbach bases of finite-dimensional normed spaces." Colloquium Mathematicae 69.2 (1996): 267-270. <http://eudml.org/doc/210339>.

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