Dvoretzky's theorem -- thirty years later (Q2366291)

This paper is dedicated to Arieh Dvoretzky on the occasion of his 75th birthday and contains a lecture given in June 1991 at the Jerusalem Conference on Banach Spaces. The author gives a short survey on the development of Geometric Functional Analysis inspired by Dvoretzky's Theorem about thirdy years ago. This paper consists of five sections plus appendix. In the first section the formulation of Dvoretzky's Theorem, its application to discuss the spectrum of uniformly continuous functions on the sphere of a Banach space or on the Grassmann manifold, and estimations concerning the relations between the dimensions and the Banach-Mazur distance in the formulation of the theorem are given. Consequences concerning centrally symmetric compact bodies and their dual bodies are presented in the second section. In the third and fourth section, the author deals with the Global Theory, the special importance of ellipsoids, and their role in volume computations. Observations concerning lattice tilings in \(\mathbb{R}^ n\) by isomorphic Euclidean balls are given in the last section. In the appendix the author shows some results (achieved after this talk at the Jerusalem Conference) on so-called ``infinite distortion'' initiated by Schlumprecht.