Essentially-Euclidean convex bodies

Alexander E. Litvak; Vitali D. Milman; Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann

Studia Mathematica (2010)

  • Volume: 196, Issue: 3, page 207-221
  • ISSN: 0039-3223

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In this note we introduce a notion of essentially-Euclidean normed spaces (and convex bodies). Roughly speaking, an n-dimensional space is λ-essentially-Euclidean (with 0 < λ < 1) if it has a [λn]-dimensional subspace which has further proportional-dimensional Euclidean subspaces of any proportion. We consider a space X₁ = (ℝⁿ,||·||₁) with the property that if a space X₂ = (ℝⁿ,||·||₂) is "not too far" from X₁ then there exists a [λn]-dimensional subspace E⊂ ℝⁿ such that E₁ = (E,||·||₁) and E₂ = (E,||·||₂) are "very close." We then show that such an X₁ is λ-essentially-Euclidean (with λ depending only on quantitative parameters measuring "closeness" of two normed spaces). This gives a very strong negative answer to an old question of the second named author. It also clarifies a previously obtained answer by Bourgain and Tzafriri. We prove a number of other results of a similar nature. Our work shows that, in a sense, most constructions of the asymptotic theory of normed spaces cannot be extended beyond essentially-Euclidean spaces.

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Alexander E. Litvak, Vitali D. Milman, and Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann. "Essentially-Euclidean convex bodies." Studia Mathematica 196.3 (2010): 207-221. <http://eudml.org/doc/285418>.

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