A proof of the Grünbaum conjecture

Bruce L. Chalmers¹ ; Grzegorz Lewicki²

¹Department of Mathematics University of California Riverside, CA 92521, U.S.A.
²Institute of Mathematics Jagiellonian University 30-348 Kraków, Poland

Studia Mathematica, Tome 200 (2010) no. 2, pp. 103-129

Résumé

Let $V$ be an $n$-dimensional real Banach space and let $\lambda(V)$ denote its absolute projection constant. For any $N \in \Bbb{N}$ with $ N \geq n$ define $$\eqalign{ \lambda_n^N = \sup\{ \lambda(V): \dim(V)= n,\, V \subset l_{\infty}^{(N)} \},\cr \lambda_n = \sup\{ \lambda(V): \dim(V)= n \}. \cr}$$ A well-known Grünbaum conjecture [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 95 (1960)] says that $$ \lambda_2 = 4/3. $$ König and Tomczak-Jaegermann [J. Funct. Anal. 119 (1994)] made an attempt to prove this conjecture. Unfortunately, their Proposition 3.1, used in the proof, is incorrect. In this paper a complete proof of the Grünbaum conjecture is presented

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DOI : 10.4064/sm200-2-1

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