Asymptotic Theory of Finite Dimensional Normed Spaces

This book deals with the geometrical structure of finite dimensional normed spaces, as the dimension grows to infinity. This is a part of what came to be known as the Local Theory of Banach Spaces (this name was derived from the fact that in its first sta

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Vitali D. Milman Gideon Schechtman

Asymptotic Theory of Finite Dimensional Normed Spaces With an Appendix by M. Gromov "Isoperimetric Inequalities in Riemannian Manifolds"

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Authors Vitali D. Milman Department of Mathematics Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv, Israel Gideon Schechtman Department of Theoretical Mathematics The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel

Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Milman, Vitali D.: Asymptotic theory of finite dimensional normed spaces / Vitali D. Milman; Gideon Schechtman. With an appendix Isoperimetric inequalities in Riemannian manifolds / by M. Gromov. - Corr. 2. printing. - Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong; London; Milan; Paris; Singapore; Tokyo: Springer, 2001 (Lecture notes in mathematics ; 1200) ISBN 3-540-16769-2

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INTRODUCTION This book deals with the geometrical structure of finite dimensional normed spaces, as the dimension grows to infinity.

This is a part of what came to be known as the Local

Theory of Banach Spaces (this name was derived from the fact that in its first stages, this theory dealt mainly with relating the structure of infinite dimensional Banach spaces to the structure of their lattice of finite dimensional subspaces). Our purpose in this book is to introduce the reader to some of the results, problems, and mainly methods developed in the Local Theory, in the last few years. This by no means is a complete survey of this wide area. Some of the main topics we do not discuss here are mentioned in the Notes and Remarks section. Several books appeared recently or are going to appear shortly, which cover much of the material not covered in this book. Among these are Pisier's [Pis6] where factorization theorems related to Grothendieck's theorem are extensively discussed, and Tomczak-Jaegermann's [T-Jl] where operator ideals and