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analysis / Nonlinear geometry of Banach spaces
The Lipschitz isomorphism problem for separable Banach spaces
Theorem 1.1: there are separable real Banach spaces X,Y and a bijection Ψ:X→Y with 214∥s−t∥≤∥Ψ(s)−Ψ(t)∥≤2576∥s−t∥, where X contains a linearly isometric copy of c0(ℓ2) and Y contains no subspace isomorphic to c0(ℓ2), so X and Y are not linearly isomorphic. The construction uses a near-isometric bi-Lipschitz change of variables between Hilbert spaces with a local orthogonality property, Lipschitz-free spaces, and a triangular graph-space construction. Real scalars only; it asserts no reflexive or complex analogue and does not say Y lacks ordinary c0. The companion on c0 absorption gives a second, independent counterexample and is a separate entry.