Angular equivalence of normed spaces (Q2360034)

The authors introduce a different notion of equivalence of norms, preserving certain properties of the norm that simple topological equivalence does not. For this task, they say that two norms are angularly equivalent if, over all pairs of non-zero vectors, the angle between the pair, determined by one norm, is comparable to the angle between the same pair, determined by the other norm. Here, the abstract notion of angle between vectors \(x,y\) in a normed space \(X\) is given by \(\theta (x,y)=\frac{g(x,y) }{\left\| x\right\| \left\| y\right\| }\) for a certain special function \(g:X\times X\rightarrow [ 0,\infty )\). One of the main results of the paper under review asserts that for real vector spaces, angularly equivalent norms are also topologically equivalent. The proof is quite technical and, as the authors remark, it is possible that a simpler proof will arise in the future. It is interesting to note that, unlike topological equivalence, norms on a finite-dimensional space are not all angularly equivalent. Five interesting open problems are presented at the end of the paper. For instance, do angularly equivalent norms induce angularly equivalent norms on quotient spaces? Reviewer's comments: The proof of Theorem 2.1 contains an unsupported statement. A corrected proof is presented in a corrigendum published by the authors in [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 458, No. 2, 1361--1362 (2018; Zbl 1472.46013)].