Banach's isometric subspace problem in dimension four
Metric Geometry
2023-11-28 v2
Abstract
We prove that if all intersections of a convex body with 3-dimensional linear subspaces are linearly equivalent then is a centered ellipsoid. This gives an affirmative answer to the case of the following question by Banach from 1932: Is a normed vector space whose -dimensional linear subspaces are all isometric, for a fixed , necessarily Euclidean? The dimensions and is the first case where the question was unresolved. Since the -sphere is parallelizable, known global topological methods do not help in this case. Our proof employs a differential geometric approach.
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@article{arxiv.2204.00936,
title = {Banach's isometric subspace problem in dimension four},
author = {Sergei Ivanov and Daniil Mamaev and Anya Nordskova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00936},
year = {2023}
}
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25 pages, v2: minor corrections and text improvements