Finite dimensional subspaces of \(L_p\) (Q2760185)

This survey deals with the structure of finite dimensional subspaces of \(L_p\). The authors provide the most interesting theorems on the subject, describe the most powerful ideas of their proof, and discuss open problems in the area.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe first section is an introduction. The motivation and the role of change of density, which appears in many proofs of related results, are discussed. In the second section, the following question is studied in detail: Let \(X\) be a \(k\)-dimensional subspace of \(L_p\), \(0<p< \infty\), and \(\varepsilon >0\). What is the smallest \(n\) such that \(X\) can be \((1+ \varepsilon)\)-embedded into \(\ell^n_p\)? At the end of the section, the authors discuss briefly how to produce an explicit embedding \(\ell^k_r\) into \(\ell^n_p\) and what the largest \(k\) is such that \(\ell^k_p\) embeds well into any \(m\)-dimensional subspace of \(\ell^n_p\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe third section is devoted to the finite dimensional subspaces of \(L_p\) with a symmetric or unconditional basis and to the subspaces with bad \(gl\)-constant. The fourth section describes the restricted invertibility of operators on \(\ell^n_p\), proved by \textit{J. Bourgain} and \textit{L. Tzafriri} [Isr. J. Math. 57, 137-224 (1987; Zbl 0631.46017)], and applications to the subspaces of \(L_p\) with maximal distance to Euclidean spaces.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFinally, in the fifth section, complemented subspaces of \(L_p\) are considered. The authors study when such subspaces can be embedded in \(\ell^n_p\) and when they can be decomposed into a direct sum.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0970.46001].