ANNOUNCEMENT OF MEETING
Convexity in Banach spaces -- An homage to Piero Papini
Castro Urdiales (Cantabria, Spain), 20-24 February 2012
Convexity is a central topic with many applications in functional analysis,
geometry, mathematical economy, control theory, etc.
This edition of the Castro Urdiales Banach Space Meeting will be focused on
the study of convexity; with special emphasis in its applications to Banach
space theory.
The Meeting is dedicated to celebrate Professor Piero Papini, whose work has
always been close to the study of convexity in normed spaces, on the occasion
of his retirement.
The following mathematicians have accepted so far to deliver a plenary
conference:
Carlos Benitez (Univ. Extremadura)
- Polarization constants in inner product spaces.
Felix Cabello Sanchez (Univ. Extremadura)
- Mathematical ping-pong.
Vladimir Fonf (Ben Gurion Univ.)
- Polyhedral spaces.
Peter Gruber (Univ. Wien)
- Great personalities of convex geometry from antiquity up to the present.
- Normal bundles of convex bodies.
Jose P. Moreno (Univ. Madrid)
- Diametrically complete sets.
Justo Puerto (Univ. Sevilla)
- Location problems, solutions, algorithms and the like.
David Yost (Univ. Ballarat)
- Constants and parameters in Banach spaces.
Additionally, those wishing to highlight some aspect of the career
or research of Prof. Papini, or to present new results in convexity,
will have the opportunity to deliver a short talk during the meeting.
Please fill the corresponding request in the registration form.
The meeting will be held in Castro Urdiales, a town by the sea in
the north of Spain, about 20 Km from Bilbao, at the C.I.E.M.
(Centro Internacional de Encuentros Matematicos)
For registration and more information, please go to the web-site
of the conference
http://www.ciem.unican.es/encuentros/banach/2012/
Organizing Committee: Marco Baronti (Genova), Jesus M. F. Castillo (Badajoz)
Manuel Gonz\'alez (Santander) and Clemente Zanco (Milano).
This is an announcement for the paper "Duality and distance formulas in
spaces defined by means of oscillation" by Karl-Mikael Perfekt.
Abstract: For the classical space of functions with bounded mean
oscillation, it is well known that VMO** = BMO and there are many
characterizations of the distance from a function f in BMO to VMO. When
considering the Bloch space, results in the same vein are available with
respect to the little Bloch space. In this paper such duality results and
distance formulas are obtained by pure functional analysis. Applications
include general M\"obius invariant spaces such as Q_K-spaces,
Lipschitz-H\"older spaces and rectangular BMO of several variables.
Archive classification: math.FA math.CV
Submitted from: perfekt(a)maths.lth.se
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.6766
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.6766
This is an announcement for the paper "Dimension reduction in $L_p$,
$0<p<2$" by Gideon Schechtman.
Abstract: Complementing a recent observation of Newman and Rabinovich
for $p=1$ we observe here that for all $0<p<2$ any $k$ points in $L_p$
embeds with distortion $(1+\e)$ into $\ell_p^n$ where $n$ is linear in $k$
(and polynomial in $\e^{-1}$).
Archive classification: math.MG math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B85
Submitted from: gideon(a)weizmann.ac.il
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.2148
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.2148
This is an announcement for the paper "Euclidean sections of convex
bodies, series of lectures" by Gideon Schechtman.
Abstract: This is a somewhat expanded form of a four hours course given,
with small variations, first at the educational workshop Probabilistic
methods in Geometry, Bedlewo, Poland, July 6-12, 2008 and a few weeks
later at the Summer school on Fourier analytic and probabilistic methods
in geometric functional analysis and convexity, Kent, Ohio, August 13-20,
2008.\\ The main part of these notes gives yet another exposition of
Dvoretzky's theorem on Euclidean sections of convex bodies with a proof
based on Milman's. This material is by now quite standard. Towards the end
of these notes we discuss issues related to fine estimates in Dvoretzky's
theorem and there there are some results that didn't appear in print
before. In particular there is an exposition of an unpublished result
of Figiel (Claim \ref{claim:figiel}) which gives an upper bound on the
possible dependence on $\e$ in Milman's theorem. We would like to thank
Tadek Figiel for allowing us to include it here. There is also a better
version of the proof of one of the results from \cite{sc2} giving a lower
bound on the dependence on $\e$ in Dvoretzky's theorem. The improvement
is in the statement and proof of Proposition \ref{prop:main} here which
is a stronger version of the corresponding Corollary 1 in \cite{sc2}.
Archive classification: math.FA math.MG
Submitted from: gideon(a)weizmann.ac.il
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.6401
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.6401
This is an announcement for the paper "Foundations of vector-valued
singular integrals revisited---with random dyadic cubes" by Tuomas
P. Hytonen.
Abstract: The vector-valued $T(1)$ theorem due to Figiel, and a certain
square function estimate of Bourgain for translations of functions with
a limited frequency spectrum, are two cornerstones of harmonic analysis
in UMD spaces. In this paper, a simplified approach to these results
is presented, exploiting Nazarov, Treil and Volberg's method of random
dyadic cubes, which allows to circumvent the most subtle parts of the
original arguments.
Archive classification: math.FA math.CA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 42B20, 60G46
Remarks: 12 pages
Submitted from: tuomas.hytonen(a)helsinki.fi
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.5826
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.5826
This is an announcement for the paper "Spaceability of sets of nowhere
$L^q$ functions" by Pedro L. Kaufmann and Leonardo Pellegrini.
Abstract: We say that a function $f:[0,1]\rightarrow \R$ is \emph{nowhere
$L^q$} if, for each nonvoid open subset $U$ of $[0,1]$, the restriction
$f|_U$ is not in $L^q(U)$. For a fixed $1\leq p <\infty$, we will show
that the set $$ S_p\doteq \{f\in L^p[0,1]: f\mbox{ is nowhere $L^q$, for
each }p<q\leq\infty\}, $$ united with $\{0\}$, contains an isometric and
complemented copy of $\ell_p$. In particular, this improves a result from
G. Botelho, V. F\'avaro, D. Pellegrino, and J. B. Seoane-Sep\'ulveda,
$L_p[0,1]\setminus \cup_{q>p} L_q[0,1]$ is spaceable for every $p>0$,
preprint, 2011., since $S_p$ turns out to be spaceable. In addition,
our result is a generalization of one of the main results from S. G\l
\c ab, P. L. Kaufmann, and L. Pellegrini, Spaceability and algebrability
of sets of nowhere integrable functions, preprint, 2011.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 26A30
Submitted from: leoime(a)yahoo.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/abs/1110.5774
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/abs/1110.5774
This is an announcement for the paper "The Br\'ezis-Browder Theorem
in a general Banach space" by Heinz H. Bauschke, Jonathan M. Borwein,
Xianfu Wang, and Liangjin Yao.
Abstract: During the 1970s Br\'ezis and Browder presented a now classical
characterization of maximal monotonicity of monotone linear relations
in reflexive spaces. In this paper, we extend and refine their result
to a general Banach space.
Archive classification: math.FA math.OC
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 47A06, 47H05, Secondary 47B65,
47N10, 90C25
Remarks: 23 pages
Submitted from: liangjinyao(a)gmail.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.5706
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.5706
This is an announcement for the paper "Functional affine-isoperimetry
and an inverse logarithmic Sobolev inequality" by S. Artstein-Avidan,
B. Klartag, C. Schuett and E. Werner.
Abstract: We give a functional version of the affine isoperimetric
inequality for log-concave functions which may be interpreted as
an inverse form of a logarithmic Sobolev inequality inequality for
entropy. A linearization of this inequality gives an inverse inequality
to the Poincar'e inequality for the Gaussian measure.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 52A20
Submitted from: elisabeth.werner(a)case.edu
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.5551
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.5551
This is an announcement for the paper "Embeddings of M\"{u}ntz spaces:
the Hilbertian case" by S.Waleed Noor and Dan Timotin.
Abstract: Given a strictly increasing sequence $\Lambda=(\lambda_n)$
of nonegative real numbers, with $\sum_{n=1}^\infty
\frac{1}{\lambda_n}<\infty$, the M\"untz spaces $M_\Lambda^p$ are defined
as the closure in $L^p([0,1])$ of the monomials $x^{\lambda_n}$. We
discuss properties of the embedding $M_\Lambda^p\subset L^p(\mu)$, where
$\mu$ is a finite positive Borel measure on the interval $[0,1]$. Most
of the results are obtained for the Hilbertian case $p=2$, in which we
give conditions for the embedding to be bounded, compact, or to belong
to the Schatten--von Neumann ideals.
Archive classification: math.FA math.CA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46E15, 46E20, 46E35
Submitted from: dtimotin(a)yahoo.com
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.5422
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.5422
This is an announcement for the paper "Bourgain's discretization theorem"
by Ohad Giladi, Assaf Naor, and Gideon Schechtman.
Abstract: Bourgain's discretization theorem asserts that there exists
a universal constant $C\in (0,\infty)$ with the following property. Let
$X,Y$ be Banach spaces with $\dim X=n$. Fix $D\in (1,\infty)$ and set $\d=
e^{-n^{Cn}}$. Assume that $\mathcal N$ is a $\d$-net in the unit ball of
$X$ and that $\mathcal N$ admits a bi-Lipschitz embedding into $Y$ with
distortion at most $D$. Then the entire space $X$ admits a bi-Lipschitz
embedding into $Y$ with distortion at most $CD$. This mostly expository
article is devoted to a detailed presentation of a proof of Bourgain's
theorem.
We also obtain an improvement of Bourgain's theorem in the important
case when $Y=L_p$ for some $p\in [1,\infty)$: in this case it suffices to
take $\delta= C^{-1}n^{-5/2}$ for the same conclusion to hold true. The
case $p=1$ of this improved discretization result has the following
consequence. For arbitrarily large $n\in \N$ there exists a family
$\mathscr Y$ of $n$-point subsets of $\{1,\ldots,n\}^2\subseteq \R^2$ such
that if we write $|\mathscr Y|= N$ then any $L_1$ embedding of $\mathscr
Y$, equipped with the Earthmover metric (a.k.a. transportation cost metric
or minimumum weight matching metric) incurs distortion at least a constant
multiple of $\sqrt{\log\log N}$; the previously best known lower bound
for this problem was a constant multiple of $\sqrt{\log\log \log N}$.
Archive classification: math.FA math.MG
Submitted from: naor(a)cims.nyu.edu
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1110.5368
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.5368