Entropy and asymptotic geometry of non-symmetric convex bodies (Q1578074)

A short version of this paper (without proofs) appeared in [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I, Math. 329, No. 4, 303-308 (1999; Zbl 0964.52006)]. We quote from the corresponding review: The authors extend a number of basic results in the local theory of Banach spaces from the setting of centrally symmetric convex bodies to the non-symmetric case. A main tool are inequalities describing the volume behaviour around the centroid of a convex body. Applications given concern covering numbers (entropy) of convex bodies and their polars, a non-symmetric version of the quotient subspace theorem, and existence and properties of \(M\)-ellipsoids of non-symmetric convex bodies.