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Necessary and sufficient conditions are given, in terms of the behaviour of martingales, for a Banach space to be given on equivalent norm under which it isδ-uniformly convex orρ-uniformly smooth, whereδ andρ are suitable Orlicz functions.
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Garling, D.J.H. Convexity, smoothness and martingale inequalities. Israel J. Math. 29, 189–198 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02762008
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