Uniformly convex renormings and generalized cotypes

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2021.107679MaRDI QIDQ2020393zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luis C. García-Lirola, M. Raja

Publication date 23 April 2021

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05657

zbMATH Keywords

cotype renorming super-reflexive Banach space UMD space uniform convexity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Isomorphic theory (including renorming) of Banach spaces (46B03) Local theory of Banach spaces (46B07) Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20)

Abstract: We are concerned about improvements of the modulus of convexity by renormings of a super-reflexive Banach space. Typically optimal results are beyond Pisier's power functions bounds

t^{p}

, with

p g e q 2

, and they are related to the notion of generalized cotype. We obtain an explicit upper bound for all the modulus of convexity of equivalent renormings and we show that if this bound is equivalent to

t^{2}

, the best possible, then the space admits a renorming with modulus of power type

2

. We show that a UMD space admits a renormings with modulus of convexity bigger, up to a multiplicative constant, than its cotype. We also prove the super-multiplicativity of the supremum of the set of cotypes.

Review text

The paper is concerned with some improvements on the modulus of convexity by renormings of a super-reflexive Banach space. The authors obtain an explicit upper bound for the modulus of convexity of equivalent renormings of a Banach space \(X\), showing that, when the space admits a renorming with modulus of power type~2, then such a bound is equivalent to \(t^2\). The main tool is the use of the notion of generalized cotype introduced by \textit{T. Figiel} [Stud. Math. 56, 121--155 (1976; Zbl 0344.46052)] as a nondecreasing function \(\phi\) such that there exist \(a,b>0\) for which \(\sum_{k=1}^n \phi(\|x_k\|)\le b\) implies \(\int_0^1 \|\sum_{k=1}^nx_k r_k(t)\|dt\le b\) for all \(n\in \mathbb N\) and \(x_1,\dots, x_n\in X\). It was shown that any modulus of convexity is a generalized cotype [\textit{T.~Figiel} and \textit{G.~Pisier}, C.~R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. A 279, 611--614 (1974; Zbl 0326.46007)]. The paper attacks the converse, that is to say, whether given a generalized cotype \(\phi\) on a super-reflexive Banach space, the space can be renormed with a modulus of convexity not worse than \(\phi\). Positive answers have been known for Banach spaces with unconditional bases. One of the results in the paper establishes that if \(X\) is a UMD Banach space and \(\phi\) is a generalized cotype, then it can be renormed in such a way that the modulus of convexity is \(\ge c\phi(t)\) for some constant \(c>0\). This extends the previous work by \textit{G. Pisier} [Isr. J. Math. 20, 326--350 (1975; Zbl 0344.46030)] for spaces of cotype~\(p\). The authors also improve some previous results of the second author where the decreasing submultiplicative function, which was shown to exist for any super-reflexive Banach space whose inverse corresponds to the supremum, up to equivalence, in the set of moduli of convexity for different renormings, is shown to be equivalent to the Szlenk index of the unit ball of \(L^2(X)\).

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