Sufficient enlargements of minimal volume for finite-dimensional normed linear spaces (Q941420)

The author continues his line of research on sufficient enlargements, started in [Extr.\ Math.\ 11, No.\,3, 466--474 (1996; Zbl 0901.46009)]. A symmetric, bounded, closed, convex set \(A\) in a finite-dimensional real normed space \(X\) is called a sufficient enlargement for the unit ball \(B_X\) of \(X\) if, for an arbitrary isometric embedding of \(X\) into a Banach space \(Y\), there exists a linear projection \(P:Y \to X\) such that \(P(B_Y)\subset A\). It is shown that (1) every minimal-volume sufficient enlargement is linearly equivalent to a zonotope spanned by multiples of columns of a totally unimodular matrix; and (2) if \(B_X\) has a minimal-volume sufficient enlargement which is not a parallelepiped, then \(X\) contains a two-dimensional subspace whose unit ball is linearly equivalent to a regular hexagon. The particular cases of (1) for two-dimensional spaces and polyhedral spaces have been proved earlier by the same author in [Math.\ Proc.\ Camb.\ Philos.\ Soc.\ 137, No.\,2, 377--396 (2004; Zbl 1066.46012)] and [Linear Algebra Appl.\ 364, 91--103 (2003; Zbl 1025.52008)], respectively.