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two examples concerning martingales in banach spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2005

jörg wenzel
Affiliation:
department of mathematics and applied mathematics, university of pretoria, pretoria 0002, south [email protected]
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Abstract

the analytic concepts of martingale type $p$ and cotype $q$ of a banach space have an intimate relation with the geometric concepts of $p$-concavity and $q$-convexity of the space under consideration, as shown by pisier. in particular, for a banach space $x$, having martingale type $p$ for some $p{>}1$ implies that $x$ has martingale cotype $q$ for some $q{<}\infty$.

the generalisation of these concepts to linear operators was studied by the author, and it turns out that the duality above only holds in a weaker form. an example is constructed showing that this duality result is best possible.

so-called random martingale unconditionality estimates, introduced by garling as a decoupling of the unconditional martingale differences (umd) inequality, are also examined.

it is shown that the random martingale unconditionality constant of $l_\infty^{2^n}$ for martingales of length $n$ asymptotically behaves like $n$. this improves previous estimates by geiss, who needed martingales of length $2^n$ to show this asymptotic. at the same time the order in the paper is the best that can be expected.

Type
notes and papers
Copyright
the london mathematical society 2005

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Footnotes

this paper grew out of the author's habilitation thesis, which was supported by dfg grant we 1868/1-1.