| COMPUTER SCIENCE/DISCRETE MATH SEMINAR I | |
| Topic: | The Grothendieck Inequality Revisited |
| Speaker: | Ron Blei |
| Affiliation: | University of Connecticut |
| Date: | Monday, February 20 |
| Time/Room: | 11:15am - 12:15pm/S-101 |
In this talk I will prove the following counterpoint to a result by Kashin and Szarek (cf. Theorem 1, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I, 1336 (2003) 931-936)):
There exists a map \phi from infinite-dimensional euclidean space into the space of continuous complex-valued functions on [0,1], and a constant K > 0, such that for all real-valued vectors x and y,
(1) the max-norm of \phi(x) is at most K times the euclidean-norm of x,
(2) the inner product of x and y equals the integral over [0,1] of (\phi(x))(\phi(y)).
Modulo the usual constraints, the talk will be elementary and self-contained.