Geometric inequalities and advances in the Ribe program

Abstract

In Chapter 1 we show that not every metric space embeds coarsely into an Alexandrov space of nonpositive curvature, thus answering a question of Gromov (1993). In Chapter 2 we introduce a metric invariant called diamond convexity and show that a Banach space X has diamond convexity q if and only if $X$ admits an equivalent q-uniformly convex norm. We also study the relation of diamond convexity with other metric invariants, such as Markov convexity and metric cotype. In Chapter 3 we use metric invariants introduced in the context of the Ribe program to derive nonembeddability results for subsets of L_p spaces. In Chapter 4 we prove that the dependence on the dimension in Pisier's inequality for superreflexive targets X is $O\big((\log n)^{\alpha(X)}\big)$ for some $\alpha(X)\in[0,1)$, thus providing the first improvement of Pisier's original logarithmic bound (1986) for this class of spaces. In Chapter 5 we undertake a systematic investigation of dimension independent properties of vec ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/56659
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/56659
ND
56659
Alternative title
Γεωμετρικές ανισότητες και πρόοδος στο πρόγραμμα Ribe
Author
Eskenazis, Alexandros (Father's name: Konstantinos)
Date
2019
Degree Grantor
Princeton University
Committee members
Charles Fefferman
Assaf Naor
Ramon van Handel
Discipline
Natural SciencesMathematics ➨ Mathematical analysis
Natural SciencesMathematics ➨ Statistics and Probability
Keywords
Metric embeddings; Discrete cube; Convex sets; Markov chains
Country
United States
Language
English
Description
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