This is an announcement for the paper "Polygonal equalities and virtual
degeneracy in $L$-spaces" by Casey Kelleher, Daniel Miller, Trenton
Osborn and Anthony Weston.
Abstract: Cases of equality in the classical $p$-negative type
inequalities for $L_{p}(\mu)$-spaces are characterized for each $p \in
(0,2)$ according to a new property called virtual degeneracy. For each
$p \in (0,2)$, this leads to a complete classification of the subsets of
$L_{p}$-spaces that have strict $p$-negative type. It follows that if $0 <
p < q \leq 2$ and if $(\Omega_{1}, \mu_{1})$ and $(\Omega_{2}, \mu_{2})$
are measure spaces, then no subset of $L_{q}(\Omega_{2}, \mu_{2})$ is
isometric to any linear subspace $W$ of $L_{p}(\Omega_{1}, \mu_{1})$
that contains a pair of disjointly supported unit vectors. Under these
circumstances it is also the case that no subset of $L_{q}(\Omega_{2},
\mu_{2})$ is isometric to any subset of $L_{p}(\Omega_{1}, \mu_{1})$
that has non-empty interior. We conclude the paper by examining virtually
degenerate subspaces of $L_{p}(\mu)$-spaces.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B04
Remarks: 9 pages
Submitted from: westona(a)canisius.edu
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1203.5837
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1203.5837