On cotype and summing properties in Banach spaces.

zbMATH Open1071.47023arXivmath/9312206MaRDI QIDQ1850246FDOQ1850246

Publication date: 1 January 2003

Published in: Illinois Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known in Banach space theory that for a finite dimensional space

E

there exists a constant

c_{E}

, such that for all sequences

(x_{k})_{k} s u b s e t E

one has [ summ_k

oo x_k rm kl c_E pl sup_{eps_k pm 1} oo summ_k eps_k x_k rm pl .] Moreover, if $E$ is of dimension $n$ the constant $c_{E}$ ranges between $s q r t n$ and $n$ . This implies that absolute convergence and unconditional convergence only coincide in finite dimensional spaces. We will characterize Banach spaces $X$ , where the constant $c_{E} s i m s q r t n$ for all finite dimensional subspaces. More generally, we prove that an estimate $c_{E} k l l c n^{1 - f r a c 1 q}$ holds for all $n i n z$ and all $n$ -dimensional subspaces $E$ of $X$ if and only if the eigenvalues of every operator factoring through $e l l_{i n f t y}$ decrease of order $k^{- f r a c 1 q}$ if and only if $X$ is of weak cotype $q$ , introduced by Pisier and Mascioni. We emphasize that in contrast to Talagrand's equivalence theorem on cotype $q$ and absolutely $(q, 1)$ -summing spaces this extendsto the case $q = 2$ . If $q > 2$ and one of the conditions above is satisfied one has [ kla summ_k oo x_k rm^q mer^{frac{1}{q}} kl C^{1+l}pl (1+{ m log}_2)^{(l)}((1 +{ m log}_2 n)^{frac{1}{q}}) pl ez