English

A remark on two duality relations

Functional Analysis 2007-05-23 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We remark that an easy combination of two known results yields a positive answer, up to log(n) terms, to a duality conjecture that goes back to Pietsch. In particular, we show that for any two symmetric convex bodies K,T in R^n, denoting by N(K,T) the minimal number of translates of T needed to cover K, one has: N(K,T) <= N(T*,(C log(n))^{-1} K*)^{C log(n) loglog(n)}, where K*,T* are the polar bodies to K,T, respectively, and C > 1 is a universal constant. As a corollary, we observe a new duality result (up to log(n) terms) for Talagrand's \gamma_p functionals.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0603461,
  title  = {A remark on two duality relations},
  author = {Emanuel Milman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603461},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

13 pages, typos corrected