Aspects of the isometric theory of Banach spaces (Q2760187)

This is a very interesting survey about some aspects of the isometric theory of Banach spaces. It contains many recent results including some of the authors. As an example we mention the solution obtained by the first author of a problem posed more than 60 years ago by Schoenberg, namely the spaces \(\ell^{n}_{q}\) with \(n\geq 3\), \(2<q<\infty\) cannot embed in \(L_{p}\) with \(1<p<2.\) Fourier analysis and probability theory were used in order to prove this result. Also a recent result of Delbaen, Jarchow and Pelczynski concerning the isometrical embedding of a subpace \(X\subset L_{p}\) into \(\ell_{p}\) is given. As a corrolary one gets:NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINETheorem. Let \(0<p<\infty\), \(p\not \in 2\mathbb N\). Then \(X\) is isometric to a subspace of \(\ell_{p}\) if and only if every \(2\)-dimensional subspace of \(X\) is isometric to a subspace of \(\ell_{p}\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFinally the answer to Busemann-Petty problem is given, and the approximation of zonoids by zonotopes and exact estimates for projection constants are considered.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0970.46001].