High-dimensional tennis balls

Timothy Gowers (Cambridge University)

30-May-2020, 15:30-16:30 (4 years ago)

Abstract: In this talk, it will be explained what a high-dimensional tennis ball is, how one can construct it and its connection to V. Milman's question about well-complemented almost Euclidean subspaces of spaces uniformly isomorphic to $\ell_2^n$.

analysis of PDEsmetric geometry

Audience: general audience

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Online asymptotic geometric analysis seminar

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