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Enflo's Walsh-block assembly
Statement
Assume AC. There is a separable reflexive real Banach space , a dense linearly independent generator with property A, pairwise disjoint finite subsets of that generator, and constants , such that
and every bounded finite-expansion satisfies
Consequently the logarithmic finite-rank lower bound of Enflo's trace lemma holds on .
Facts & Assumptions
AC holds (The Axiom of Choice).
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).
The two adjacent Walsh layers satisfy the exact symmetry trace estimate with factor (Enflo's Walsh-block estimates and symmetry average).
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).
Property A and localized traces have their fixed-generator meanings (Enflo finite-expansion and localized-trace system).
Proof
Given: The objects and hypotheses in the Statement.
Choose real numbers with . Put
After deleting finitely many initial indices, all are positive and strictly increasing. Let be the disjoint union of copies of , and let . [explicit parameters]
The dual-coordinate argument identifies [given, step 1.1] with : 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 , makes the canonical map onto. Thus is reflexive. It is separable because it is the completion of a countable union of finite-dimensional rational spans.
In choose a set of vectors so [given, step 2.1] that: (i) each vector has exactly one nonzero component, an element of ; (ii) its components in are zero or elements of , and every such Walsh function occurs; and (iii) two distinct vectors never share the same nonzero component. Equivalently is partitioned into of size and is equipped with subsets of size , with the pairwise disjoint and the linked to the next layer. No covering assertion is imposed; points outside the selected incidence region have multiplicity zero.
Require in addition the three incidence bounds
and, with ,
These are Enflo's conditions 4--6. Let be the closed span in of . The unique lowest nonzero block proves independence. To check [L4]'s property A, fix a finite combination , a participating generator , and one component block . If 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 , and the two possible adjacent layers have different degrees. Walsh orthogonality makes the normalized norm of at least , so its supremum norm is at least as well. Taking the maximum over for each coordinate and then the Hilbertian sum over gives . 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 reflexive. [A1, L3, L4, steps 2.1, 3.1]
For a finite-expansion , condition 6 and property A give
Indeed the left side is the weighted sum of the diagonal coefficients , each bounded by via property A, and condition 6 is exactly the total weight error. [L4, step 4.1]
Fix and put . Delete from each finite expansion of the terms outside this generator set, obtaining . The localized traces of and on the two displayed sets agree, and on . Restriction to that block identifies with the two Walsh layers in [L2]. Write
The vector supplied by [L2] therefore satisfies
Its values on every other have modulus at most by condition 4. Its values on and have modulus at most by the two parts of condition 5, while [L2] gives . Thus the middle block has sup norm , each adjacent outer block has sup norm at most half of that, and all other blocks vanish. Since the ambient sum is Hilbertian, . Also . Hence
Averaging in and combining with step 5.1 yields
[L2, steps 3.1, 4.1, 5.1]
It remains to realize the incidences. Put
and identify each Walsh layer with a cyclic group of the corresponding cardinality. Inside , enumerate
first by increasing , then , then . Take the first successive blocks of points as . Each such block meets every in at most one point, so condition 5 holds eventually. [explicit lexicographic construction]
Put and . Every point of occurs once at each complete -level, so its multiplicity among the selected blocks differs from by at most one; points outside have multiplicity zero. Since ,
Both terms are : their exponential orders are respectively and . Thus condition 6 holds after discarding finitely many indices. [step 1.1, balanced incidence count]
Suppose two distinct selected blocks share a point represented both as and . The injectivity at a fixed -level gives , and . For any other common point whose first coordinate differs by , congruence in gives
Moreover
The exponent is positive precisely because , so eventually . The common first coordinates lie in an interval of length less than and are more than apart. There are therefore at most 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]
Finally [given, L1, step 6.1, step 8.2] . Therefore eventually and for one constant . Step 6.1 supplies the trace hypothesis, so [L1] gives the claimed logarithmic finite-rank lower bound.
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Sources
- Per Enflo, A counterexample to the approximation problem in Banach spaces (standard reference, not scraped)