The skew constant and orthogonalities in Banach spaces

Author(s): Yin Zhou1, Qichuan Ni1, Qi Liu1
1School of Mathematics and Physics, Anqing Normal University, Anqing 246133, P. R. China;
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Abstract

In normed spaces, Birkhoff orthogonality and isosceles orthogonality can be used to characterize space structures, and many scholars have introduced geometric constants to quantitatively describe the relationship between these two types of orthogonality. This paper introduces a new orthogonal relationship – Skew orthogonality – and proposes a new geometric constant to measure the “distance” of difference between skew orthogonality and Birkhoff orthogonality in normed spaces. In the end, we provide some examples of specific spaces.

Keywords: Birkhoff orthogonality; geometric constant; Hilbert spaces; uniformly non-square