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A new coarsely rigid class of Banach spaces

Metric Geometry 2020-04-14 v3 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We prove that the class of reflexive asymptotic-c0c_0 Banach spaces is coarsely rigid, meaning that if a Banach space XX coarsely embeds into a reflexive asymptotic-c0c_0 space YY, then XX is also reflexive and asymptotic-c0c_0. In order to achieve this result we provide a purely metric characterization of this class of Banach spaces. This metric characterization takes the form of a concentration inequality for Lipschitz maps on the Hamming graphs, which is rigid under coarse embeddings. Using an example of a quasi-reflexive asymptotic-c0c_0 space, we show that this concentration inequality is not equivalent to the non equi-coarse embeddability of the Hamming graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1806.00702,
  title  = {A new coarsely rigid class of Banach spaces},
  author = {Florent Baudier and Gilles Lancien and Pavlos Motakis and Thomas Schlumprecht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00702},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v2 discussed 3 topics. The coarse rigidity results have been published in J. Inst. Math. Jussieu and form the content of v3 (now 17 pages). The material related to the geometry of Hamming-type metrics has been reworked and is now submission arXiv:2004.04805. The work on coarse universality has been considerably expanded with new results and is now the stand-alone submission arXiv:2004.04806