This is an announcement for the paper "Thick coverings for the unit ball of a Banach space" by Jesus M. F. Castillo, Pier Luigi Papini and Marilda A. Simoes.
Abstract: We study the behaviour of Whitley's thickness constant of a Banach space with respect to $\ell_p$-products and we compute it for classical $L_p$-spaces.
Archive classification: math.FA
Remarks: This paper is to appear in Houston Journal of Mathematics
Submitted from: castillo@unex.es
The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1307.4385
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