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Eva M. Mazcuñán-navarro

The Ptolemy and Zbăganu constants of normed spaces

Abstract In every inner product space H the Ptolemy inequality holds: the product of the diagonals of a quadrilateral is less than or equal to the sum of the products of the opposite sides. In other words, ‖ x − y ‖ ‖ z − w ‖ ≤ ‖ x − z ‖ ‖ y − w ‖ + ‖ z − y ‖ ‖ x − w ‖ for any points w , x , y , z in H . It is known that for each normed space ( X , ‖ ⋅ ‖ ) , there exists a constant C such that for any w , x , y , z ∈ X , we have ‖ x − y ‖ ‖ z − w ‖ ≤ C ( ‖ x − z ‖ ‖ y − w ‖ + ‖ z − y ‖ ‖ x − w ‖ ) . The smallest such C is called the Ptolemy constant of X and is denoted by C P ( X ) . We study the relationships between this constant and the geometry of the space X , and hence with metric fix…

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The Dunkl–Williams constant, convexity, smoothness and normal structure

Abstract In this paper we exhibit some connections between the Dunkl–Williams constant and some other well-known constants and notions. We establish bounds for the Dunkl–Williams constant that explain and quantify a characterization of uniformly nonsquare Banach spaces in terms of the Dunkl–Williams constant given by M. Baronti and P.L. Papini. We also study the relationship between Dunkl–Williams constant, the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings and normal structure.

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Uniformly nonsquare Banach spaces have the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings

Abstract It is shown that if the modulus Γ X of nearly uniform smoothness of a reflexive Banach space satisfies Γ X ′ ( 0 ) 1 , then every bounded closed convex subset of X has the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings. In particular, uniformly nonsquare Banach spaces have this property since they are properly included in this class of spaces. This answers a long-standing question in the theory.

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Stability of the fixed point property in Hilbert spaces

In this paper we prove that if X X is a Banach space whose Banach-Mazur distance to a Hilbert space is less than 5 + 17 2 \sqrt {\frac {5+\sqrt {17}}{2}} , then X X has the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings.

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Banach spaces which are r-uniformly noncreasy

Abstract We consider a family of spaces wider than UNC spaces introduced by Prus, and we give some fixed point results in the setting of these spaces.

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