Minimal ball-coverings in Banach spaces and their application

Lixin Cheng; Qingjin Cheng; Huihua Shi

Studia Mathematica (2009)

  • Volume: 192, Issue: 1, page 15-27
  • ISSN: 0039-3223

Abstract

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By a ball-covering of a Banach space X, we mean a collection of open balls off the origin in X and whose union contains the unit sphere of X; a ball-covering is called minimal if its cardinality is smallest among all ball-coverings of X. This article, through establishing a characterization for existence of a ball-covering in Banach spaces, shows that for every n ∈ ℕ with k ≤ n there exists an n-dimensional space admitting a minimal ball-covering of n + k balls. As an application, we give a new characterization of superreflexive spaces in terms of ball-coverings. Finally, we show that every infinite-dimensional Banach space admits an equivalent norm such that there is an infinite-dimensional quotient space possessing a countable ball-covering.

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Lixin Cheng, Qingjin Cheng, and Huihua Shi. "Minimal ball-coverings in Banach spaces and their application." Studia Mathematica 192.1 (2009): 15-27. <http://eudml.org/doc/286362>.

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