Institution: | Department of Mathematics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Tobata, Kitakyushu 804, Japan Yasuji Takahashi ; Department of System Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University, Soja 719-11, Japan |
Abstract: | Let be the von Neumann-Jordan constant for a Banach space . It is known that for any Banach space ; and is a Hilbert space if and only if . We show that: (i) If is uniformly convex, is less than two; and conversely the condition implies that admits an equivalent uniformly convex norm. Hence, denoting by the infimum of all von Neumann-Jordan constants for equivalent norms of , is super-reflexive if and only if . (ii) If , (the same value as that of -space), is of Rademacher type and cotype for any with , where ; the converse holds if is a Banach lattice and is finitely representable in or . |