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Janiely Silva

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arXiv2020

Macphail's Theorem revisited

In 1947, M. S. Macphail constructed a series in $\ell_{1}$ that converges unconditionally but does not converge absolutely. According to the literature, this result helped Dvoretzky and Rogers to finally answer a long standing problem of Banach Space Theory, by showing that in all infinite-dimensional Banach spaces, there exists an unconditionally summable sequence that fails to be absolutely summable. More precisely, the Dvoretzky--Rogers Theorem asserts that in every infinite-dimensional Banach space $E$ there exists an unconditionally convergent series ${\textstyle\sum}x^{(j)}$ such that ${\textstyle\sum}\Vert x^{(j)}\Vert^{^{2-\varepsilon}}=\infty$ for all $\varepsilon>0.$ Their proof is non-constructive and Macphail's result for $E=\ell_{1}$ provides a constructive proof just for $\varepsilon\geq1.$ In this note we revisit Machphail's paper and present two alternative constructions that work for all $\varepsilon>0.$

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arXiv2020

On a continuous Gale--Berlekamp switching game

We propose a continuous version of the classical Gale--Berlekamp switching game. We also study a weighted version of this new continuous game. The main results of this paper concern growth estimates for the corresponding optimization problems. The methods developed in this article are deterministic in nature and in some special cases the estimates obtained are optimal.

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arXiv2020

On unimodular multilinear forms with small norms on sequence spaces

The Kahane--Salem--Zygmund inequality is a probabilistic result that guarantees the existence of special matrices with entries $1$ and $-1$ generating unimodular $m$-linear forms $A_{m,n}:\ell_{p_{1}}^{n}\times \cdots\times\ell_{p_{m}}^{n}\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}$ (or $\mathbb{C}$) with relatively small norms. The optimal asymptotic estimates for the smallest possible norms of $A_{m,n}$ when $\left\{ p_{1},...,p_{m}\right\} \subset\lbrack2,\infty]$ and when $\left\{ p_{1},...,p_{m}\right\} \subset\lbrack1,2)$ are well-known and in this paper we obtain the optimal asymptotic estimates for the remaining case: $\left\{ p_{1},...,p_{m}\right\} $ intercepts both $[2,\infty]$ and $[1,2)$. In particular we prove that a conjecture posed by Albuquerque and Rezende is false and, using a special type of matrices that dates back to the works of Toeplitz, we also answer a problem posed by the same authors.

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