Norming points and unique minimality of orthogonal projections.
Let , be metric spaces and an injective mapping. We put , and (the distortion of the mapping ). We investigate the minimum dimension such that every -point metric space can be embedded into the space with a prescribed distortion . We obtain that this is possible for , where is a suitable absolute constant. This improves a result of Johnson, Lindenstrauss and Schechtman [JLS87] (with a simpler proof). Related results for embeddability into are obtained by a similar method.
Let X and Y be infinite dimensional Banach spaces and let L(X,Y) be the class of all (linear continuous) operators acting between X and Y. Mil'man [5] introduced the isometry spectrum I(T) of T ∈ L(X,Y) in the following way:I(T) = {α ≥ 0: ∀ ε > 0, ∃M ∈ S∞(X), ∀x ∈ SM, | ||Tx|| - α | < ε}},where S∞(X) is the set of all infinite dimensional closed subspaces of X and SM := {x ∈ M: ||x|| = 1} is the unit sphere of M ∈ S∞(X). (...)
We show that the numerical index of a -, -, or -sum of Banach spaces is the infimum of the numerical indices of the summands. Moreover, we prove that the spaces C(K,X) and (K any compact Hausdorff space, μ any positive measure) have the same numerical index as the Banach space X. We also observe that these spaces have the so-called Daugavet property whenever X has the Daugavet property.
We introduce new concepts of numerical range and numerical radius of one operator with respect to another one, which generalize in a natural way the known concepts of numerical range and numerical radius. We study basic properties of these new concepts and present some examples.