This is an announcement for the paper "Weak and strong moments of random
vectors" by Rafal Latala.
Abstract: We discuss a conjecture about comparability of weak and strong
moments of log-concave random vectors and show the conjectured inequality
for unconditional vectors in normed spaces with a bounded cotype constant.
Archive classification: math.PR math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 60E15, Secondary 52A40, 60B11
Remarks: 8 pages
Submitted from: rlatala(a)mimuw.edu.pl
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1012.2703
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1012.2703
This is an announcement for the paper "Uniform Eberlein compactifications
of metrizable spaces" by Taras Banakh and Arkady Leiderman.
Abstract: We prove that each metrizable space (of cardinality less
or equal to continuum) has a (first countable) uniform Eberlein
compactification and each scattered metrizable space has a scattered
hereditarily paracompact compactification. Each compact scattered
hereditarily paracompact space is uniform Eberlein and belongs to
the smallest class of compact spaces, that contain the empty set, the
singleton, and is closed under producing the Aleksandrov compactification
of the topological sum of a family of compacta from that class.
Archive classification: math.GN math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 54D35, 54G12, 54D30, 54D20
Remarks: 6 pages
Submitted from: tbanakh(a)yahoo.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1012.0920
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1012.0920
This is an announcement for the paper "Interpolating thin-shell and
sharp large-deviation estimates For isotropic log-concave measures"
by Olivier Guedon and Emanuel Milman.
Abstract: Given an isotropic random vector $X$ with log-concave density
in Euclidean space $\Real^n$, we study the concentration properties
of $|X|$ on all scales, both above and below its expectation. We
show in particular that: \[ \P(\abs{|X| -\sqrt{n}} \geq t \sqrt{n})
\leq C \exp(-c n^{\frac{1}{2}} \min(t^3,t)) \;\;\; \forall t \geq 0 ~,
\] for some universal constants $c,C>0$. This improves the best known
deviation results on the thin-shell and mesoscopic scales due to Fleury
and Klartag, respectively, and recovers the sharp large-deviation estimate
of Paouris. Another new feature of our estimate is that it improves
when $X$ is $\psi_\alpha$ ($\alpha \in (1,2]$), in precise agreement
with both estimates of Paouris. The upper bound on the thin-shell width
$\sqrt{\Var(|X|)}$ we obtain is of the order of $n^{1/3}$, and improves
down to $n^{1/4}$ when $X$ is $\psi_2$. Our estimates thus continuously
interpolate between a new best known thin-shell estimate and the sharp
large-deviation estimate of Paouris.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: 27 pages - also resolved the negative moment and deviation
estimates, interpolating now between the thin-shell and the Paouris
small-ball estimate
Submitted from: emanuel.milman(a)gmail.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.0943
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.0943
This is an announcement for the paper "Sharp bounds on the rate of
convergence of the empirical covariance matrix" by Radoslaw Adamczak,
Alexander E. Litvak, Alain Pajor, and Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann.
Abstract: Let $X_1,..., X_N\in\R^n$ be independent centered random
vectors with log-concave distribution and with the identity as covariance
matrix. We show that with overwhelming probability at least $1 - 3
\exp(-c\sqrt{n}\r)$ one has $
\sup_{x\in S^{n-1}} \Big|\frac{1/N}\sum_{i=1}^N (|<X_i, x>|^2 - \E|<X_i,
x>|^2\r)\Big|
\leq C \sqrt{\frac{n/N}},$ where $C$ is an absolute positive
constant. This
result is valid in a more general framework when the linear forms
$(<X_i,x>)_{i\leq N, x\in S^{n-1}}$ and the Euclidean norms $(|X_i|/\sqrt
n)_{i\leq N}$ exhibit uniformly a sub-exponential decay. As a consequence,
if $A$ denotes the random matrix with columns $(X_i)$, then with
overwhelming probability, the extremal singular values $\lambda_{\rm
min}$ and $\lambda_{\rm max}$ of $AA^\top$ satisfy the inequalities $ 1 -
C\sqrt{{n/N}} \le {\lambda_{\rm min}/N} \le \frac{\lambda_{\rm max}/N}
\le 1 + C\sqrt{{n/N}} $ which is a quantitative version of Bai-Yin
theorem \cite{BY} known for random matrices with i.i.d. entries.
Archive classification: math.PR math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 52A20, 46B09, 52A21 (Primary) 15A52,
60E15 (Secondary)
Submitted from: radamcz(a)mimuw.edu.pl
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1012.0294
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1012.0294
This is an announcement for the paper "Order statistics and concentration
of l_r norms for log-concave vectors" by Rafal Latala.
Abstract: We establish upper bounds for tails of order statistics of
isotropic log-concave vectors and apply them to derive a concentration
of l_r norms of such vectors.
Archive classification: math.PR math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 60E15 (52A38, 60B11)
Remarks: 17 pages
Submitted from: rlatala(a)mimuw.edu.pl
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.6610
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.6610
This is an announcement for the paper "On quantification of weak
sequential completeness" by O.F.K. Kalenda, H. Pfitzner and J. Spurny.
Abstract: We consider several quantities related to weak sequential
completeness of a Banach space and prove some of their properties in
general and in $L$-embedded Banach spaces, improving in particular an
inequality of G.~Godefroy, N.~Kalton and D.~Li. We show some examples
witnessing natural limits of our positive results, in particular,
we construct a separable Banach space $X$ with the Schur property
that cannot be renormed to have a certain quantitative form of weak
sequential completeness, thus providing a partial answer to a question
of G.~Godefroy.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B20
Remarks: 9 pages
Submitted from: kalenda(a)karlin.mff.cuni.cz
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.6553
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.6553
This is an announcement for the paper "Products of orthogonal projections
and polar decompositions" by Gustavo Corach and Alejandra Maestripieri.
Abstract: We characterize the sets $\XX$ of all products $PQ$, and $\YY$
of all products $PQP$, where $P,Q$ run over all orthogonal projections and
we solve the problems \newline $\arg\min\{\|P-Q\|: (P,Q) \in \cal Z\}$,
for $\cal Z=\XX$ or $\YY.$ We also determine the polar decompositions
and Moore-Penrose pseudoinverses of elements of $\XX.$
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 47A05
Submitted from: gcorach(a)fi.uba.ar
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.5237
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.5237
Announcement of Meeting:
SET THEORETIC TECHNIQUES IN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
To be held in Castro Urdiales (Cantabria) Spain,
from February 21 to February 24, 2011.
Organized by Jesús M. F. Castillo (Univ. of Extremadura) and
Manuel González (Univ. of Cantabria), in collaboration with
the CIEM (International Center for Matematical Encounters).
The meeting includes six mini-courses lectured by:
Antonio Avilés (Univ. Murcia, Spain) (2 hours)
Push-out constructions in Banach spaces and Boolean algebras
Valentin Ferenczi (Univ. Sao Paulo, Brasil) (2 hours)
Groups of isometries on Banach spaces
Piotr Koszmider (Univ. Lodz, Poland) (2 hours)
Some applications of set-theoretic topological methods in C(K) spaces
Wieslaw Kubis (Univ. Praga, Czech Republic) (2 hours)
Category-theoretic methods for constructing universal Banach spaces
Jordi López Abad (ICMAT-CSIC, Madrid, Spain) (2 hours)
Banach Spaces and Ramsey Theory: some open problems
Stevo Todorcevic (Univ. Toronto, Canada) (3 hours)
Combinatorial dichotomies in set theory and their applications to analysis
Participants will have the possibility of delivering short lectures
of 20 or 30 minutes.
Registration for the meeting can be done through the web-site:
http://www.ciem.unican.es/encuentros/banach2011.
There is no registration fee.
Additional information can be found in that web-site.
The meeting is supported by CIEM, Universidad de Cantabria,
Ayuntamiento de Castro Urdiales and Ingenio Mathematica.
Antonio MArtínez-Abejón (University of Oviedo, Spain)