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Pisier's inequality revisited

Functional Analysis 2013-05-15 v2

Abstract

Given a Banach space XX, for nNn\in \mathbb N and p(1,)p\in (1,\infty) we investigate the smallest constant P(0,)\mathfrak P\in (0,\infty) for which every f1,...,fn:1,1nXf_1,...,f_n:{-1,1}^n\to X satisfy \int_{{-1,1}^n}\Bigg|\sum_{j=1}^n \partial_jf_j(\varepsilon)\Bigg|^pd\mu(\varepsilon) \leq \mathfrak{P}^p\int_{{-1,1}^n}\int_{{-1,1}^n}\Bigg\|\sum_{j=1}^n \d_j\Delta f_j(\varepsilon)\Bigg\|^pd\mu(\varepsilon) d\mu(\delta), where μ\mu is the uniform probability measure on the discrete hypercube 1,1n{-1,1}^n and jj=1n{\partial_j}_{j=1}^n and Δ=j=1nj\Delta=\sum_{j=1}^n\partial_j are the hypercube partial derivatives and the hypercube Laplacian, respectively. Denoting this constant by Ppn(X)\mathfrak{P}_p^n(X), we show that Ppn(X)k=1n1k\mathfrak{P}_p^n(X)\le \sum_{k=1}^{n}\frac{1}{k} for every Banach space (X,)(X,|\cdot|). This extends the classical Pisier inequality, which corresponds to the special case fj=Δ1jff_j=\Delta^{-1}\partial_j f for some f:1,1nXf:{-1,1}^n\to X. We show that supnNPpn(X)<\sup_{n\in \N}\mathfrak{P}_p^n(X)<\infty if either the dual XX^* is a UMD+\mathrm{UMD}^+ Banach space, or for some θ(0,1)\theta\in (0,1) we have X=[H,Y]θX=[H,Y]_\theta, where HH is a Hilbert space and YY is an arbitrary Banach space. It follows that supnNPpn(X)<\sup_{n\in \N}\mathfrak{P}_p^n(X)<\infty if XX is a Banach lattice of finite cotype.

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@article{arxiv.1207.5375,
  title  = {Pisier's inequality revisited},
  author = {Tuomas Hytönen and Assaf Naor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.5375},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Referee comments addressed. To appear in Studia Mathematica

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