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REVISITING THE RECTANGULAR CONSTANT IN BANACH SPACES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2021
Abstract
Let X be a real Banach space. The rectangular constant $\mu (X)$ and some generalisations of it, $\mu _p(X)$ for $p \geq 1$ , were introduced by Gastinel and Joly around half a century ago. In this paper we make precise some characterisations of inner product spaces by using $\mu _p(X)$ , correcting some statements appearing in the literature, and extend to $\mu _p(X)$ some characterisations of uniformly nonsquare spaces, known only for $\mu (X)$ . We also give a characterisation of two-dimensional spaces with hexagonal norms. Finally, we indicate some new upper estimates concerning $\mu (l_p)$ and $\mu _p(l_p)$ .
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- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 105 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 124 - 133
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