The cotype constant and an almost Euclidean decomposition for finite- dimensional normed spaces
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The cotype constant and an almost Euclidean decomposition for finite- dimensional normed spaces
zbMATH Open document ID: 0657.46010
DOI: 10.1007/BF02776082
author: S. J. Dilworth
author: Stanislaw J. Szarek
published in: Israel Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: In this paper it is shown that every 2n-dimensional normed space admits a ``Kashin-decomposition'', i.e. two n-dimensional subspaces \(E_ 1\) and \(E_ 2\), which are orthogonal with respect to the inner product induced by the John ellipsoid of E for which the Banach-Mazur distance to the Hilbert space \(\ell^ n_ 2\) is majorized by a function of the cotype 2 constant of E. This result has to be put in the context of previous results of Kashin (1977) on the decomposition of \(\ell_ 1^{2n}\) into two orthogonal Hilbertian spaces, and of Szarek (1978) which deduces the existence of Kashin decomposition from the boundedness of volume ratios; and of the more recent result of Milman and Pisier about the boundedness of the volume ratio under weak cotype 2 assumption. The authors show in fact that the set of [\(\theta\) n]-dimensional subspaces F of an n-dimensional space E, whose distances to Hilbert space are majorized by a certain function of cotype 2 constant \(K_ 2(E)\) of E, is of large measure (for the invariant probability on the Grassmannian manifold). This is a simple consequence of previous results of Szarek and of Tomczak-Jaegermann when one replaces \(K_ 2(E)\) by \(T_ 2(E^*)\) (type 2 constant of the dual) and one passes from \(T_ 2(E^*)\) to \(K_ 2(E)\) by a lemma inspired by the ``iteration procedure'' of V. D. Milman.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46B20
zbMATH DE Number: 4073711
zbMATH Keywords: Kashin-decomposition
zbMATH Keywords: cotype 2 constant
zbMATH Keywords: boundedness of the volume ratio under weak cotype 2 assumption
zbMATH Keywords: iteration procedure
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