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We prove an abstract comparison principle which translates gaussian cotype into Rademacher cotype conditions and vice versa. More precisely, let 2 < q < ∞ and T: C(K) → F a continuous linear operator. (1) T is of gaussian cotype q if and only if ${\left({\sum }_k{(\left(\parallel T{x}_k{\parallel }_F\right)/\left(\surd log(k+1)\right))}^q\right)}^{1/q}\le c\parallel {\sum }_k{\varepsilon }_k{x}_k{\parallel }_{L_2\left(C\left(K\right)\right)}$, for all sequences ${\left(x_k\right)}_{k\in \mathbb{N}}\subset C\left(K\right)$ with ${\left(\parallel T{x}_k\parallel \right)}_{k=1}^n$ decreasing. (2) T is of Rademacher cotype q if and only if $({\sum }_k{\left(\parallel T{x}_k{\parallel }_F\surd \left({\left(log(k+1)\right)}^q\right)\right)}^{1/q}\le c\parallel {\sum }_k{g}_k{x}_k{\parallel }_{L_2\left(C\left(K\right)\right)}$, for all sequences ${\left(x_k\right)}_{k\in \mathbb{N}}\subset C\left(K\right)$ with ${\left(\parallel T{x}_k\parallel \right)}_{k=1}^n$ decreasing. Our method allows a restriction to a fixed number of vectors and complements the corresponding results of Talagrand.

The dual of a Banach space X is of weak type p if and only if the entropy numbers of an r-nuclear operator with values in a Banach space of weak type q belong to the Lorentz sequence space ${\ell }_{s,r}$ with 1/s + 1/p + 1/q = 1 + 1/r (0 < r < 1, 1 ≤ p, q ≤ 2). It is enough to test this for Y = X*. This extends results of Carl, König and Kühn.

We determine the set of all triples 1 ≤ p,q,r ≤ ∞ for which the so-called Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequality is satisfied: There exists a constant c≥ 0 such that for each bounded linear operator $T:L_q\left(\mu \right)\to L_p\left(\nu \right)$, each n ∈ ℕ and functions $f_1,...,f_n\in L_q\left(\mu \right)$, $\left(ʃ\right({\sum }_{k=1}^n|T{f}_k{|}^r{)}^{p/r}{d\nu )}^{1/p}\le c\parallel T\parallel \left(ʃ\right({\sum }_{k=1}^n|f_k{|}^r{{)}^{q/r}d\mu )}^{1/q}$. This type of inequality includes as special cases well-known inequalities of Paley, Marcinkiewicz, Zygmund, Grothendieck, and Kwapień. If such a Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequality holds for a given triple (p,q,r), then we calculate the best constant c ≥ 0 (with the only exception:...

There exists an absolute constant $c_0$ such that for any n-dimensional Banach space E there exists a k-dimensional subspace F ⊂ E with k≤ n/2 such that $in{f}_{ellipsoid\epsilon \subset B_E}{(vol\left(B_E\right)/vol\left(\epsilon \right))}^{1/n}\le c_{0}in{f}_{zonoidZ\subset B_F}{(vol\left(B_F\right)/vol\left(Z\right))}^{1/k}$ . The concept of volume ratio with respect to ${\ell }_p$-spaces is used to prove the following distance estimate for $2\le q\le p<\infty$: $su{p}_{F\subset {\ell }_p,dimF=n}in{f}_{G\subset L_q,dimG=n}d(F,G){\sim }_{c_{pq}}{n}^{(q/2)(1/q-1/p)}$.