Delta-semidefinite and delta-convex quadratic forms in Banach spaces

DOI10.1007/S11117-007-2106-6zbMATH Open1153.46006arXivmath/0605549OpenAlexW1999685295MaRDI QIDQ931389FDOQ931389

Authors: Libor Vesely, N. J. Kalton, Sergei Konyagin 

Publication date: 25 June 2008

Published in: Positivity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A continuous quadratic form ("quadratic form", in short) on a Banach space $X$ is: (a) delta-semidefinite (i.e., representable as a difference of two nonnegative quadratic forms) if and only if the corresponding symmetric linear operator $TcolonXo{X}^{\ast }$ factors through a Hilbert space; (b) delta-convex (i.e., representable as a difference of two continuous convex functions) if and only if $T$ is a UMD-operator. It follows, for instance, that each quadratic form on an infinite-dimensional $L_p(mu)$ space ($1lepleinfty$) is: (a) delta-semidefinite iff $pge2$; (b) delta-convex iff $p>1$. Some other related results concerning delta-convexity are proved and some open problems are stated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605549

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zbMATH Keywords

Banach spaceUMD-spacecontinuous quadratic formdelta-convex functiondelta-semidefinite quadratic formpositively semi-definite quadratic formWalsh-Paley martingale

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic and bilinear forms, inner products (15A63) Isomorphic theory (including renorming) of Banach spaces (46B03) Convex functions and convex programs in convex geometry (52A41) Probabilistic methods in Banach space theory (46B09)

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