This is an announcement for the paper "A characterization of subspaces
and quotients of reflexive Banach spaces with unconditional basis"
by W. B. Johnson and Bentuo Zheng.
Abstract: We prove that the dual or any quotient of a separable
reflexive Banach space with the unconditional tree property has the
unconditional tree property. Then we prove that a separable reflexive
Banach space with the unconditional tree property embeds into a
reflexive Banach space with an unconditional basis. This solves
several long standing open problems. In particular, it yields that
a quotient of a reflexive Banach space with an unconditional finite
dimensional decomposition embeds into a reflexive Banach space with
an unconditional basis.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B03
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Workshop in Analysis and Probability
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
Summer 2007
The Summer 2007 session of the Workshop in Analysis and Probability at
Texas A&M University will be in session from July 9 until August 12. For
information about the Workshop, consult the Workshop Home Page, URL
http://www.math.tamu.edu/research/workshops/linanalysis/
The Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar (SUMIRFAS) will be held
August 10-12. Speakers will include Rodrigo Banuelos, Grahame Bennett,
Dmitry Panchenko, Michael Steele, and Staszek Szarek.
Ken Dykema <kdykema(a)math.tamu.edu> and Michael Anshelevich
<manshel(a)math.tamu.edu> are organizing a Concentration Week on "Free
Probability Theory" which is designed to introduce advanced graduate
students and postdocs to Free Probability. It will take place July 9-13.
There will be one or two basic talks at the start for those without any
previous knowledge of free probability theory. Then lecture series will
be given by the following experts: Hari Bercovici, "Complex analytic and
probabalistic aspects of free probability theory"; Kenley Jung, "Free
entropy and operator algebras"; Alexandru Nica, "Combinatorics of free
probability theory".
Gideon Schechtman <gideon.schechtman(a)weizmann.ac.il> and Joel Zinn
<jzinn(a)math.tamu.edu> are organizing a Concentration Week on "Probability
Inequalities with Applications to High Dimensional Phenomena" that will
take place August 6 - August 10. The first day will be devoted to
introductory talks designed to introduce non experts to the subject.
The Workshop is supported in part by grants from the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Minorities, women, graduate students, and young
researchers are especially encouraged to attend.
For logistical support, including requests for support, please contact
Cara Barton <cara(a)math.tamu.edu> or Jaime Vykukal <jaime(a)math.tamu.edu>.
For more information on the Workshop itself, please contact William
Johnson <johnson(a)math.tamu.edu>, David Larson <larson(a)math.tamu.edu>,
Gilles Pisier <pisier(a)math.tamu.edu>, or Joel Zinn <jzinn(a)math.tamu.edu>.
For information about the Concentration Week "Free Probability Theory"
contact Michael Anshelevich <manshel(a)math.tamu.edu> or Ken Dykema
<kdykema(a)math.tamu.edu>.
For information about the Concentration Week on "Probability Inequalities
with Applications to High Dimensional Phenomena", contact Joel Zinn
<jzinn(a)math.tamu.edu>.
This is an announcement for the paper "On Lipschitz and d.c. surfaces
of finite codimension in a Banach space" by Ludvek Zajivcek.
Abstract: Properties of Lipschitz and d.c. surfaces of finite
codimension in a Banach space, and properties of generated
$\sigma$-ideals are studied. These $\sigma$-ideals naturally appear
in the differentiation theory and in the abstract approximation
theory. Using these properties, we improve an unpublished
result of M. Heisler which gives an alternative proof of a result
of D. Preiss on singular points of convex functions.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46T05, 58C20, 47H05
Remarks: 13 pages
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This is an announcement for the paper "A solution to a question of
A. Koldobsky" by Emanuel Milman.
Abstract: In 2000, A. Koldobsky asked whether two types of
generalizations of the notion of an intersection-body, are in fact
equivalent. The structures of these two types of generalized
intersection-bodies have been studied by the author in
[http://www.arxiv.org/math.MG/0512058], providing substantial
positive evidence for a positive answer to this question. The purpose
of this note is to construct a counter-example, which provides a
surprising negative answer to this question in a strong sense. This
negative answer implies the existence of a non-trivial non-negative
function in the range of the spherical Radon transform.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Remarks: 13 pages
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This is an announcement for the paper "Rosenthal operator spaces"
by Marius Junge, Niels Jorgen Nielsen and Timur Oikhberg.
Abstract: In 1969 Lindenstrauss and Rosenthal showed that if a
Banach space is isomorphic to a complemented subspace of an L_p-space,
then it is either a script L_p-space or isomorphic to a Hilbert
space. This is the motivation of this paper where we study
non--Hilbertian complemented operator subspaces of non commutative
L_p-spaces and show that this class is much richer than in the
commutative case. We investigate the local properties of some new
classes of operator spaces for every $2<p< \infty$ which can be
considered as operator space analogues of the Rosenthal sequence
spaces from Banach space theory, constructed in 1970. Under the
usual conditions on the defining sequence sigma we prove that most
of these spaces are operator script L_p-spaces, not completely
isomorphic to previously known such spaces. However it turns out
that some column and row versions of our spaces are not operator
script L_p-spaces and have a rather complicated local structure
which implies that the Lindenstrauss--Rosenthal alternative does
not carry over to the non-commutative case.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B20;46L07;46L52
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This is an announcement for the paper "Projections and the
Kadison-Singer Problem" by Peter G. Casazza, Dan Edidin, Deepti
Kalra and Vern I. Paulsen.
Abstract: We prove some new equivalences of the paving conjecture
and obtain some estimates on the paving constants. In addition we
give a new family of counterexamples to one of the Akemann-Anderson
conjectures.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46L15; 47L25
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This is an announcement for the paper "On the ``Multiple of the
Inclusion Plus Compact'' problem" by George Androulakis and Frank
Sanacory.
Abstract: The ``multiple of the inclusion plus compact problem''
which was posed by T.W.~Gowers in 1996 and Th.~Schlumprecht in 2003,
asks whether for every infinite dimensional Banach space $X$ there
exists a closed subspace $Y$ of $X$ and a bounded linear operator
from $Y$ to $X$ which is not a compact perturbation of a multiple
of the inclusion map from $Y$ to $X$. We give sufficient conditions
on the spreading models of seminormalized basic sequences of a
Banach space $X$ which guarantee that the ``multiple of the inclusion
plus compact'' problem has an affirmative answer for $X$. Our results
strengthen a previous result of the first named author, E.~Odell,
Th.~Schlumprecht and N.~Tomczak-Jaegermann as well as a result of
Th.~Schlumprecht. We give an example of a Hereditarily Indecomposable
Banach space where our results apply. For the proof of our main
result we use an extension of E.~Odell's Schreier unconditionality
result for arrays.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46A32, 47B07
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This is an announcement for the paper "Embedding into Banach spaces
with finite dimensional decompositions" by E. Odell and Th.
Schlumprecht.
Abstract: This paper deals with the following types of problems:
Assume a Banach space $X$ has some property (P). Can it be embedded
into some Banach space $Z$ with a finite dimensional decomposition
having property (P), or more generally, having a property related
to (P)? Secondly, given a class of Banach spaces, does there exist
a Banach space in this class, or in a closely related one, which
is universal for this class?
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Mathematics Subject Classification: 46B03; 46B20
Remarks: 26 pages
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This is an announcement for the paper "The lower dimensional
Busemann-Petty problem for bodies with the generalized axial
symmetry" by Boris Rubin.
Abstract: The lower dimensional Busemann-Petty problem asks, whether
$n$-dimensional origin-symmetric convex bodies, having smaller
$i$-dimensional sections, necessarily have smaller volumes.
For $i=1$, the affirmative answer is obvious. For $i>3$, the answer
is negative.
For $i=2$ and $i=3$, the problem is still open, except when the body
with smaller sections is a body of revolution. In this case the answer is
affirmative. The paper contains a complete solution to the problem
in the more general situation, when the body with smaller sections
is invariant under orthogonal transformations preserving coordinate
subspaces $R^{l}$ and $R^{n-l}$ of $R^{n}$ for arbitrary fixed
$0<l<n$.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis
Mathematics Subject Classification: 44A12; 52A38
Remarks: 26 pages
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This is an announcement for the paper "Almost Euclidean sections
of the N-dimensional cross-polytope using O(N) random bits" by
Shachar Lovett and Sasha Sodin.
Abstract: It is well known that R^N has subspaces of dimension
proportional to N on which the \ell_1 norm is equivalent to the
\ell_2 norm; however, no explicit constructions are known. Extending
earlier work by Artstein--Avidan and Milman, we prove that such a
subspace can be generated using O(N) random bits.
Archive classification: Functional Analysis; Metric Geometry;
Probability
Remarks: 16 pages
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