Some convexity constants related to Hlawka type inequalities in Banach spaces (Q701397)

For all \(x,y,z\) in a Hilbert space, the following equation and inequality hold: \[ \|x+y\|^2 +\|y+z\|^2 +\|z+x\|^2 = \|x\|^2 + \|y\|^2 + \|z\|^2 + \|x+y+z\|^2 \] \[ \|x+y\|+\|y+z\|+\|z+x\|\leq \|x\|+ \|y\|+ \|z\|+ \|x+y+z\|. \] These raise the question as to whether, for an arbitrary Banach space and for \(r,s \geq 1\), there are constants, \(C(r,s)\), such that \[ (\|x+y\|^s +\|y+z\|^s +\|z+x\|^s)^{1/s} \leq C(r,s)(\|x\|^r + \|y\|^r + \|z\|^r + \|x+y+z\|^r)^{1/r}. \] The authors show that, indeed, such an inequality holds for all Banach spaces with \(C(r,s):= 2^{1-2/r}3^{1/s}\). In the space \(\ell^n_{\infty}\) one cannot improve on this constant but the results above show that for Hilbert space one can take \(C(1,1) = C(2,2) = 1\). The rest of the paper is taken up with finding the minimal \(C(r,s)\) for various values of \(r\) and \(s\) when the space is a Hilbert space.