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Enflo's Walsh-block assembly

Statement

Assume AC. There is a separable reflexive real Banach space B, a dense linearly independent generator with property A, pairwise disjoint finite subsets Mm of that generator, and constants b>1, K>0 such that

Mm+1>Mmb

and every bounded finite-expansion T satisfies

Tr~(Mm+1,T)Tr~(Mm,T)KTlogMm.

Consequently the logarithmic finite-rank lower bound of Enflo's trace lemma holds on B.

Facts & Assumptions

[A1]
[L1]

Enflo's fixed-generator trace criterion converts the two displayed block hypotheses into the logarithmic finite-rank lower bound (Enflo's quantitative localized-trace obstruction).

[L2]

The two adjacent Walsh layers satisfy the exact symmetry trace estimate with factor 2/n (Enflo's Walsh-block estimates and symmetry average).

[L3]

Under AC, the real dominated Hahn--Banach theorem supplies Hahn--Banach; under Hahn--Banach, a closed subspace of a reflexive Banach space is reflexive (Hahn-Banach dominated extension theorem for real vector spaces, Closed subspaces of reflexive spaces are reflexive).

[L4]

Property A and localized traces have their fixed-generator meanings (Enflo finite-expansion and localized-trace system).

Proof

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Given: The objects and hypotheses in the Statement.

1.1

Choose real numbers 1<b<α<γ with α<(2+γ)/(1+γ). Put

given

nm=αm,tm=(2nmnm1),km=tmγ.

After deleting finitely many initial indices, all are positive and strictly increasing. Let Km be the disjoint union of km copies Km,j of Z22nm, and let B1=(mC(Km))2. [explicit parameters]

2.1

The dual-coordinate argument identifies [given, step 1.1] B1 with (mC(Km))2: finite Hölder gives one inequality, and finite-dimensional compactness supplies norming vectors for each finite partial sum and hence the reverse. Applying the same argument to the bidual, and using finite-dimensional reflexivity of each C(Km), makes the canonical map onto. Thus B1 is reflexive. It is separable because it is the completion of a countable union of finite-dimensional rational spans.

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3.1

In C(Km)C(Km+1) choose a set Mm of kmtm vectors so [given, step 2.1] that: (i) each vector has exactly one nonzero Km,j component, an element of Wnm+1; (ii) its components in Km+1,j are zero or elements of Wnm+11, and every such Walsh function occurs; and (iii) two distinct vectors never share the same nonzero component. Equivalently Mm is partitioned into Mm,j of size tm and is equipped with subsets Nm,jMm of size tm+1, with the Mm,j pairwise disjoint and the Nm,j linked to the next layer. No covering assertion is imposed; points outside the selected incidence region have multiplicity zero.

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4.1

Require in addition the three incidence bounds

givenL4A1L3step 3.1

Nm,iNm,j2tm+1nm+1(ij),

Nm,jMm,imin{tm+1nm+1,tmnm},

and, with σ(e)={j:eNm,j},

eMm1kmtmσ(e)km+1tm+11nm+1.

These are Enflo's conditions 4--6. Let B be the closed span in B1 of mMm. The unique lowest nonzero block proves independence. To check [L4]'s property A, fix a finite combination x=eaee, a participating generator e0, and one component block Kr,i. If e0 vanishes there, the componentwise estimate is trivial. Otherwise the nonzero restrictions of the participating generators are distinct Walsh characters: property (iii) handles characters from the same Mm, and the two possible adjacent layers have different degrees. Walsh orthogonality makes the normalized L2 norm of xKr,i at least ae0, so its supremum norm is at least ae0 as well. Taking the maximum over i for each C(Kr) coordinate and then the Hilbertian sum over r gives xae0e0. Thus property A holds with the full generator norm, including both adjacent nonzero coordinates. Countably many generators give separability, and [A1] is used through [L3] to make the closed subspace B reflexive. [A1, L3, L4, steps 2.1, 3.1]

5.1

For a finite-expansion T, condition 6 and property A give

givenL4step 4.1

Tr~(Mm,T)1km+1j=1km+1Tr~(Nm,j,T)Tnm+1.

Indeed the left side is the weighted sum of the diagonal coefficients a(e), each bounded by T via property A, and condition 6 is exactly the total weight error. [L4, step 4.1]

6.1

Fix j and put E=[Nm,jMm+1,j]. Delete from each finite expansion of Te the terms outside this generator set, obtaining T:EE. The localized traces of T and T on the two displayed sets agree, and Tx=Tx on Km+1,j. Restriction to that block identifies E with the two Walsh layers in [L2]. Write

givenL2step 5.1

 ⁣x ⁣=maxpKm+1,jx(p).

The vector supplied by [L2] therefore satisfies

Tr~(Nm,j,T)Tr~(Mm+1,j,T)2nm+1 ⁣Tx ⁣ ⁣x ⁣.

Its values on every other Km+1,i have modulus at most Nm,iNm,j/tm+12/nm+1 by condition 4. Its values on Km,i and Km+2,i have modulus at most 1/nm+1 by the two parts of condition 5, while [L2] gives  ⁣x ⁣2/nm+1. Thus the middle block has sup norm  ⁣x ⁣, each adjacent outer block has sup norm at most half of that, and all other blocks vanish. Since the ambient sum is Hilbertian, x3/2 ⁣x ⁣<2 ⁣x ⁣. Also  ⁣Tx ⁣TxTx. Hence

Tr~(Nm,j,T)Tr~(Mm+1,j,T)4Tnm+1.

Averaging in j and combining with step 5.1 yields

Tr~(Mm+1,T)Tr~(Mm,T)5Tnm+1.

[L2, steps 3.1, 4.1, 5.1]

7.1

It remains to realize the incidences. Put

givenstep 6.1

Lm=kmtm+1,νm=km+1Lmtm,

and identify each Walsh layer with a cyclic group of the corresponding cardinality. Inside {1,,Lmtm+1}×Ztm, enumerate

(j,jρ+k),ρ=0,1,2,,k=0,,tm1,j=1,,Lmtm+1,

first by increasing ρ, then k, then j. Take the first km+1 successive blocks of tm+1 points as Nm,1,,Nm,km+1. Each such block meets every Mm,i={i}×Ztm in at most one point, so condition 5 holds eventually. [explicit lexicographic construction]

8.1

Put Am={1,,Lmtm+1}×Ztm and qm=km+1/(Lmtm). Every point of Am occurs once at each complete ρ-level, so its multiplicity σ(e) among the selected blocks differs from qm by at most one; points outside Am have multiplicity zero. Since Am=Lmtm+1tm,

givenstep 7.1

eMm1kmtmσ(e)km+1tm+12tm+1km+kmtmkm+1tm+1.

Both terms are o(1/nm+1): their exponential orders are respectively tmαγ+o(1) and tm(γ+1)(1α)+o(1). Thus condition 6 holds after discarding finitely many indices. [step 1.1, balanced incidence count]

8.2

Suppose two distinct selected blocks share a point represented both as (j,jρ1+k1) and (j,jρ2+k2). The injectivity at a fixed ρ-level gives ρ1ρ2, and ρ1ρ2νm. For any other common point whose first coordinate differs by μ, congruence in Ztm gives

givenstep 1.1step 7.1

tmμ(ρ1ρ2),μtmρ1ρ2tmνm.

Moreover

tmνmLmtm2km+1kmtm2tm+1km+1=tmγ+2α(γ+1)+o(1).

The exponent is positive precisely because α<(2+γ)/(1+γ), so eventually tm/νm>nm+1. The common first coordinates lie in an interval of length less than tm+1 and are more than nm+1 apart. There are therefore at most 1+tm+1/nm+12tm+1/nm+1 of them. This proves condition 4. Together with steps 7.1--8.1, all three incidence conditions hold after a finite reindexing. [step 1.1, finite arithmetic count, Stirling estimate]

9.1

Finally [given, L1, step 6.1, step 8.2] logMm=log(kmtm)(γ+1)(2log2)nm. Therefore Mm+1>Mmb eventually and 5/nm+1K/logMm for one constant K. Step 6.1 supplies the trace hypothesis, so [L1] gives the claimed logarithmic finite-rank lower bound.

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