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 and 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.