A remark on two duality relations

Emanuel Milman

Published 2006-03-19, updated 2006-06-17Version 2

We remark that an easy combination of two known results yields a positive answer, up to log(n) terms, to a duality conjecture that goes back to Pietsch. In particular, we show that for any two symmetric convex bodies K,T in R^n, denoting by N(K,T) the minimal number of translates of T needed to cover K, one has: N(K,T) <= N(T*,(C log(n))^{-1} K*)^{C log(n) loglog(n)}, where K*,T* are the polar bodies to K,T, respectively, and C > 1 is a universal constant. As a corollary, we observe a new duality result (up to log(n) terms) for Talagrand's \gamma_p functionals.