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A counterexample to metric-entropy duality
Disproves Pietsch's dimension-free duality conjecture for metric entropy. Origin-symmetric convex bodies violate every proposed choice of universal constants in the conjectured comparison between covering numbers and those of the polar bodies, even when the covering body is a cube.
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Counterexamples to the duality conjecture for metric entropy
Sep 24, 2026·main.pdfLean
We disprove Pietsch's dimension-free duality conjecture for metric entropy. For every proposed pair of universal constants, we construct origin-symmetric convex bodies that violate the corresponding covering-entropy inequality, already when the covering body is a cube.