No dimension reduction for doubling subsets of \(\ell_q\) when \(q>2\) revisited (Q2050873)

The authors present an alternative approach to the results of \textit{Y. Bartal} et al. [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 29, No. 3, 1207--1222 (2015; Zbl 1330.68294)] and \textit{V. Lafforgue} and \textit{A. Naor} [Geom. Dedicata 172, 387--398 (2014; Zbl 1305.30029)] about the impossibility of dimension reduction for doubling subsets of \(\ell_q\) for \(q>2\). The alternative approach is based on the so-called self-improvement argument which can be described as the argument based on satisfiability of the following condition: embeddability of a large structure of some type into a space \(X\) belonging to some category, with some (possibly poor) quantitative parameters implies embeddability into \(X\) of a smaller structure of the same type with better parameters. Usage of such self-improvement arguments in the linear Banach space theory goes back at least to \textit{M. M. Day} [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 47, 313--317 (1941; Zbl 0024.41401)]. Apparently the earliest usage of this technique in nonlinear Banach space theory is due to \textit{W. B. Johnson} and \textit{G. Schechtman} [J. Topol. Anal. 1, No. 2, 177--189 (2009; Zbl 1183.46022)]. The attraction of this new approach, in addition to its elementary nature, is that it can be used to obtain embeddability obstructions into non-positively curved spaces or asymptotically uniformly convex Banach spaces.