Type and cotype of a Banach space
= Type and cotype of a Banach space
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In functional analysis, the concepts of type and cotype of a Banach space are related to the way the space behaves concerning the geometry of high-dimensional spheres and the behavior of linear functionals on the space. These notions are particularly important in the study of random vectors, the geometry of Banach spaces, and various aspects of functional analysis.