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Metrical characterization of super-reflexivity and linear type of Banach spaces

Functional Analysis 2017-09-27 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that a Banach space X is not super-reflexive if and only if the hyperbolic infinite tree embeds metrically into X. We improve one implication of J.Bourgain's result who gave a metrical characterization of super-reflexivity in Banach spaces in terms of uniforms embeddings of the finite trees. A characterization of the linear type for Banach spaces is given using the embedding of the infinite tree equipped with a suitable metric.

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@article{arxiv.0704.1955,
  title  = {Metrical characterization of super-reflexivity and linear type of Banach spaces},
  author = {Florent Baudier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1955},
  year   = {2017}
}

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to appear in Archiv der Mathematik