On a question of Pietsch

Abstract: The main result is that a finite dimensional normed space embeds isometrically in

e l l_{p}

if and only if it has a discrete Levy

p

-representation. This provides an alternative answer to a question raised by Pietch, and as a corollary, a simple proof of the fact that unless

p

is an even integer, the two-dimensional Hilbert space

e l l_{2}^{2}

is not isometric to a subspace of

e l l_{p}

. The situation for

e l l_{q}^{2}

with

q e q 2

turns out to be much more restrictive. The main result combined with a result of Dor provides a proof of the fact that if

q e q 2

then

e l l_{q}^{2}

is not isometric to a subspace of

e l l_{p}

unless

q = p

. Further applications concerning restrictions on the degree of smoothness of finite dimensional subspaces of

e l l_{p}

are included as well.

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