In his proof of Szemerédi’s Theorem, Gowers introduced certain norms that are defined on a parallelepiped structure. A natural question is on which sets a parallelepiped structure (and thus a Gowers norm) can be defined. We focus on dimensions $2$ and $3$ and show when this possible, and describe a correspondence between the parallelepiped structures and nilpotent groups.

We survey a combinatorial framework for studying subsequences of a given sequence in a Banach space, with particular emphasis on weakly-null sequences. We base our presentation on the crucial notion of barrier introduced long time ago by Nash-Williams. In fact, one of the purposes of this survey is to isolate the importance of studying mappings defined on barriers as a crucial step towards solving a given problem that involves sequences in Banach spaces. We focus our study on various forms of ?partial...

The planar Ramsey number PR(G,H) is defined as the smallest integer n for which any 2-colouring of edges of Kₙ with red and blue, where red edges induce a planar graph, leads to either a red copy of G, or a blue H. In this note we study the weak induced version of the planar Ramsey number in the case when the second graph is complete.

We characterize those classes 𝓒 of separable Banach spaces for which there exists a separable Banach space Y not containing ℓ₁ and such that every space in the class 𝓒 is a quotient of Y.

This paper addresses two problems lying at the intersection of geometric analysis and theoretical computer science: The non-linear isomorphic Dvoretzky theorem and the design of good approximate distance oracles for large distortion.We introduce the notion of Ramsey partitions of a finite metric space, and show that the existence of good Ramsey partitions implies a solution to the metric Ramsey problem for large distortion (also known as the non-linear version of the isomorphic Dvoretzky theorem,...

We investigate families of partitions of ω which are related to special coideals, so-called happy families, and give a dual form of Ramsey ultrafilters in terms of partitions. The combinatorial properties of these partition-ultrafilters, which we call Ramseyan ultrafilters, are similar to those of Ramsey ultrafilters. For example it will be shown that dual Mathias forcing restricted to a Ramseyan ultrafilter has the same features as Mathias forcing restricted to a Ramsey ultrafilter. Further we...

Let $(X,\rho )$, $(Y,\sigma )$ be metric spaces and $f:X\to Y$ an injective mapping. We put ${\parallel f\parallel }_{Lip}=sup\{\sigma (f\left(x\right),f\left(y\right))/\rho (x,y)$; $x,y\in X$, $x\ne y\}$, and $dist\left(f\right)={\parallel f\parallel }_{Lip}.{\parallel f^{-1}\parallel }_{Lip}$ (the distortion of the mapping $f$). Some Ramsey-type questions for mappings of finite metric spaces with bounded distortion are studied; e.g., the following theorem is proved: Let $X$ be a finite metric space, and let $\epsilon >0$, $K$ be given numbers. Then there exists a finite metric space $Y$, such that for every mapping $f:Y\to Z$ ($Z$ arbitrary metric space) with $dist\left(f\right)<K$ one can find a mapping $g:X\to Y$, such that both the mappings $g$ and ${f|}_{g\left(X\right)}$ have distortion at...

Suppose that $X$ is a Fréchet space, $\langle a_{ij}\rangle$ is a regular method of summability and $\left(x_i\right)$ is a bounded sequence in $X$. We prove that there exists a subsequence $\left(y_i\right)$ of $\left(x_i\right)$ such that: either (a) all the subsequences of $\left(y_i\right)$ are summable to a common limit with respect to $\langle a_{ij}\rangle$; or (b) no subsequence of $\left(y_i\right)$ is summable with respect to $\langle a_{ij}\rangle$. This result generalizes the Erdös-Magidor theorem which refers to summability of bounded sequences in Banach spaces. We also show that two analogous results for some ${\omega }_1$-locally convex spaces...