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)
This is an announcement for the paper "On the numerical radius of
operators in Lebesgue spaces" by Miguel Martin, Javier Meri and Mikhail
Popov.
Abstract: We show that the absolute numerical index of the space
$L_p(\mu)$ is $p^{-\frac{1}{p}} q^{-\frac{1}{q}}$ (where $1/p+1/q=1$). In
other words, we prove that $$ \sup\left\{\int |x|^{p-1}|Tx|\, d\mu
\, : \ x\in L_p(\mu),\,\|x\|_p=1\right\} \,\geq \,p^{-\frac{1}{p}}
q^{-\frac{1}{q}}\,\|T\| $$ for every $T\in \mathcal{L}(L_p(\mu))$ and that
this inequality is the best possible when the dimension of $L_p(\mu)$
is greater than one. We also give lower bounds for the best constant
of equivalence between the numerical radius and the operator norm in
$L_p(\mu)$ for atomless $\mu$ when restricting to rank-one operators or
narrow operators.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B04, 46B20, 47A12
Remarks: 14 pages
Submitted from: mmartins(a)ugr.es
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.4785
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.4785
This is an announcement for the paper "Hereditarily indecomposable,
separable L_\infty spaces with \ell_1 dual having few operators,
but not very few operators" by Matthew Tarbard.
Abstract: Given a natural number $k \geq 2$, we construct a hereditarily
indecomposable, $\mathscr{L}_{\infty}$ space, $X_k$ with dual isomorphic
to $\ell_1$. We exhibit a non-compact, strictly singular operator $S$
on $X_k$, with the property that $S^k = 0$ and $S^j (0 \leq j \leq k-1)$
is not a compact perturbation of any linear combination of $S^l, l \neq
j$. Moreover, every bounded linear operator on this space has the form
$\sum_{i=0}^{k-1} \lambda_i S^i +K$ where the $\lambda_i$ are scalars
and $K$ is compact. In particular, this construction answers a question
of Argyros and Haydon ( "A hereditarily indecomposable space that solves
the scalar-plus-compact problem").
Archive classification: math.FA
Submitted from: matthew.tarbard(a)sjc.ox.ac.uk
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.4776
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.4776
This is an announcement for the paper "Approximation of functions
and their derivatives by analytic maps on certain Banach spaces"
by D. Azagra, R. Fry and L. Keener.
Abstract: Let X be a separable Banach space which admits a separating
polynomial; in particular X a separable Hilbert space. Let f:X→R be
bounded, Lipschitz, and C¹ with uniformly continuous derivative. Then
for each {\epsilon}>0, there exists an analytic function g:X→R with
|g-f|<{\epsilon} and ‖g′-f′‖<{\epsilon}.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: 17 pages
Submitted from: rfry(a)tru.ca
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.4613
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.4613
This is an announcement for the paper "Geometry of the Banach spaces
C(beta mathbb N times K, l_p) for compact metric spaces K" by Dale
E. Alspach and Eloi Medina Galego .
Abstract: In this paper we provide the complete isomorphic classification
of the spaces C(beta mathbb N times K, l_p) of all continuous l_p-valued
functions, 1 <= p < infinity, defined on the topological product of
the Stone-Cech compactification of the natural numbers mathbb N and an
arbitrary infinite compact metric space K.
In order to do this, we first prove that c_0 is the only infinite
dimensional
separable C(K) space, Z, up to an isomorphism, which satisfies each one
of the following statements:
(1) Z is a quotient of C(beta mathbb N, l_p) for every 1< p< infinity.
(2) Z is isomorphic to a complemented subspace of C(beta mathbb N,
l_1). (3) C(beta mathbb N, l_p) is isomorphic to the injective tensor
product of
itself and Z, for every 1 <= p < infinity.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B
Remarks: 17 pages
Submitted from: alspach(a)math.okstate.edu
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.3261
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.3261
This is an announcement for the paper "Some remarks on stronger versions
of the Boundary Problem for Banach spaces" by Jan-David Hardtke.
Abstract: Let $X$ be a real Banach space. A subset $B$ of the dual unit
sphere of $X$ is said to be a boundary for $X$, if every element of $X$
attains its norm on some functional in $B$. The well-known Boundary
Problem originally posed by Godefroy asks whether a bounded subset of
$X$ which is compact in the topology of pointwise convergence on $B$ is
already weakly compact. This problem was recently solved by H.Pfitzner
in the positive. In this note we collect some stronger versions of
the solution to the Boundary Problem, most of which are restricted to
special types of Banach spaces. We shall use the results and techniques
of Pfitzner, Cascales et al., Moors and others.
Archive classification: math.FA
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46A50, 46B50
Remarks: 14 pages
Submitted from: hardtke(a)math.fu-berlin.de
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1011.2372
or
http://arXiv.org/abs/1011.2372