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

The source file(s), 127.Projks.tex: 48714 bytes, is(are) stored in gzipped form as 0701450.gz with size 16kb. The corresponding postcript file has gzipped size 123kb.

Submitted from: pete@math.missouri.edu

The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL

http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/math.FA/0701450

or

http://arXiv.org/abs/math.FA/0701450

or by email in unzipped form by transmitting an empty message with subject line

uget 0701450

or in gzipped form by using subject line

get 0701450

to: math@arXiv.org.