On the modulus of -convexity.
How can one recognize when a metric space is bilipschitz equivalent to an Euclidean space? One should not take the abstraction of metric spaces too seriously here; subsets of Rn are already quite interesting. It is easy to generate geometric conditions which are necessary for bilipschitz equivalence, but it is not clear that such conditions should ever be sufficient. The main point of this paper is that the optimistic conjectures about the existence of bilipschitz parametrizations are wrong. In...
We prove a version of the local reflexivity theorem which is, in a sense, the most general one: our main theorem characterizes the conditions which can be imposed additionally on the usual local reflexivity map provided that these conditions are of a certain general type. It is then shown how known and new local reflexivity theorems can be derived. In particular, the compatibility of the local reflexivity map with subspaces and operators is investigated.
A new drop property, the quasi-weak drop property, is introduced. Using streaming sequences introduced by Rolewicz, a characterisation of the quasi-weak drop property is given for closed bounded convex sets in a Fréchet space. From this, it is shown that the quasi-weak drop property is equivalent to weak compactness. Thus a Fréchet space is reflexive if and only if every closed bounded convex set in the space has the quasi-weak drop property.
We study the set f’(X) = f’(x): x ∈ X when f:X → ℝ is a differentiable bump. We first prove that for any C²-smooth bump f: ℝ² → ℝ the range of the derivative of f must be the closure of its interior. Next we show that if X is an infinite-dimensional separable Banach space with a -smooth bump b:X → ℝ such that is finite, then any connected open subset of X* containing 0 is the range of the derivative of a -smooth bump. We also study the finite-dimensional case which is quite different. Finally,...
Let X be a normed space. A set A ⊆ X is approximately convexif d(ta+(1-t)b,A)≤1 for all a,b ∈ A and t ∈ [0,1]. We prove that every n-dimensional normed space contains approximately convex sets A with and , where ℋ denotes the Hausdorff distance. These estimates are reasonably sharp. For every D>0, we construct worst possible approximately convex sets in C[0,1] such that ℋ(A,Co(A))=(A)=D. Several results pertaining to the Hyers-Ulam stability theorem are also proved.
We study the size of the sets of gradients of bump functions on the Hilbert space , and the related question as to how small the set of tangent hyperplanes to a smooth bounded starlike body in can be. We find that those sets can be quite small. On the one hand, the usual norm of the Hilbert space can be uniformly approximated by smooth Lipschitz functions so that the cones generated by the ranges of its derivatives have empty interior. This implies that there are smooth Lipschitz bumps...