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Patrik Wahlberg: Grothendieck’s inequality and an application to computer science

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Föreläsare/Lecturer

Patrik Wahlberg

Titel/Title

Grothendieck’s inequality and an application to computer science

Sammanfattning/Abstract

We give an elementary proof due to R. C. Blei of an inequality first proved by Grothendieck 1953. It has been described as a surprising and non-trivial relation between Hilbert space (e.g. L^2) and the two fundamental Banach spaces L^1 and L^\infty. The inequality has applications in many areas e.g. Banach space geometry, C^* algebra, non-commutative geometry, Bell's inequality and computer science. We discuss an application in complexity theory viz. the N versus NP problem.

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