Projection constants of symmetric spaces and variants of Khintchine's inequality

Abstract

Abstract The projection constants of the lpn-spaces for 1 ≦ p ≦ 2 satisfy with in the real case and in the complex case. Further, there is c < 1 such that the projection constant of any n-dimensional space Xn with 1-symmetric basis can be estimated by . The proofs of the results are based on averaging techniques over permutations and a variant of Khintchine's inequality which states that