Almost minimal orthogonal projections

Abstract: The projection constant

P i (E) := P i (E, e l l_{i} n f t y)

of a finite-dimensional Banach space

E s u b s e t e l l_{i} n f t y

is by definition the smallest norm of a linear projection of

e l l_{i} n f t y

onto

E

. Fix

n g e q 1

and denote by

P i_{n}

the maximal value of

P i (c d o t)

amongst

n

-dimensional real Banach spaces. We prove for every

v a r e p s i l o n > 0

that there exist an integer

d g e q 1

and an

n

-dimensional subspace

E s u b s e t e l l_{1}^{d}

such that

P i_{n} l e q P i (E, e l l_{1}^{d}) + 2 v a r e p s i l o n

and the orthogonal projection

P c o l o n e l l_{1}^{d} o E

is almost minimal in the sense that

l V e r t P V e r t l e q P i (E, e l l_{1}^{d}) + v a r e p s i l o n

. As a consequence of our main result, we obtain a formula relating

P i_{n}

to smallest absolute value row-sums of orthogonal projection matrices of rank

n

.

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