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Publications and source records attributed to P. Mankiewicz.
Several characterizations of weak cotype 2 and weak Hilbert spaces are given in terms of basis constants and other structural invariants of Banach spaces. For finite-dimensional spaces, characterizations depending on subspaces of fixed proportional dimension are proved.
We study the properties of "generic", in the sense of the Haar measure on the corresponding Grassmann manifold, subspaces of l^N_infinity of given dimension. We prove that every "well bounded" operator on such a subspace, say E, is a "small" perturbation of a multiple of identity, where "smallness" is defined intrinsically in terms of the geometry of E. In the opposite direction, we prove that such "generic subspaces of l^N_infinity" do admit "nontrivial well bounded" projections, which shows the "near optimality" of the first mentioned result, and proves the so called "Pisier's dichotomy conjecture" in the "generic" case.