Majorizing measures and proportional subsets of bounded orthonormal systems..
Markov convexity and local rigidity of distorted metrics
It is shown that a Banach space admits an equivalent norm whose modulus of uniform convexity has power-type if and only if it is Markov -convex. Counterexamples are constructed to natural questions related to isomorphic uniform convexity of metric spaces, showing in particular that tree metrics fail to have the dichotomy property.
Metric Characterizations of Superreflexivity in Terms of Word Hyperbolic Groups and Finite Graphs
We show that superreflexivity can be characterized in terms of bilipschitz embeddability of word hyperbolic groups.We compare characterizations of superrefiexivity in terms of diamond graphs and binary trees.We show that there exist sequences of series-parallel graphs of increasing topological complexitywhich admit uniformly bilipschitz embeddings into a Hilbert space, and thus do not characterize superrefiexivity.