More on the duality conjecture for entropy numbers. (Q1408115)

The results of this paper are related to the duality conjecture for entropy numbers going back to \textit{A. Pietsch} [Theorie der Operatorenideale, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (1972; Zbl 0238.46067)]. For two convex bodies \(K\) and \(T\) in \({\mathbb R}^{n}\), the covering number of \(K\) by \(T\), denoted by \(N(K,T)\), is defined as the minimal number of translates of \(T\) needed to cover \(K\). Here the important case is considered where \(T\) is the unit ball \(D\). The main theorem says that there exists an absolute constant \(c>0\) such that if \(n\in {\mathbb N}\) and \(K\subset {\mathbb R}^{n}\) is a \(o\)-symmetric convex body, then \(\log N(K,D)\leq 3\log N(D,c\gamma ^{-1}K^{\circ })\) where \(K^{\circ }\) denotes the polar body of \(K\) and \(\gamma \) is a certain parameter depending on \(K\) and \(D\) which is conjectured to be uniformly bounded for a class of sets \(K\) to which the problem can be reduced.