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Upper bound for the Dvoretzky dimension in Milman-Schechtman theorem

Functional Analysis 2016-12-13 v1

Abstract

For a symmetric convex body KRnK\subset\mathbb{R}^n, the Dvoretzky dimension k(K)k(K) is the largest dimension for which a random central section of KK is almost spherical. A Dvoretzky-type theorem proved by V.~D.~Milman in 1971 provides a lower bound for k(K)k(K) in terms of the average M(K)M(K) and the maximum b(K)b(K) of the norm generated by KK over the Euclidean unit sphere. Later, V.~D.~Milman and G. Schechtman obtained a matching upper bound for k(K)k(K) in the case when M(K)b(K)>c(log(n)n)12\frac{M(K)}{b(K)}>c(\frac{\log(n)}{n})^{\frac{1}{2}}. In this paper, we will give an elementary proof of the upper bound in Milman-Schechtman theorem which does not require any restriction on M(K)M(K) and b(K)b(K).

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@article{arxiv.1612.03572,
  title  = {Upper bound for the Dvoretzky dimension in Milman-Schechtman theorem},
  author = {Han Huang and Feng Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03572},
  year   = {2016}
}
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