Abstract: | For Banach spaces and and a bounded linear operator we let such that for all finitely supported and all , where is the sequence of Haar functions. We construct an operator , where is superreflexive and of type 2, with such that there is no constant with In particular it turns out that the decoupling constants , where is the identity of a Banach space , fail to be equivalent up to absolute multiplicative constants to the usual -constants. As a by-product we extend the characterization of the non-superreflexive Banach spaces by the finite tree property using lower 2-estimates of sums of martingale differences. |