Entropy numbers and box dimension of polynomials and holomorphic functions

Abstract

We study entropy numbers and box dimension of (the image of) homogeneous polynomials and holomorphic functions between Banach spaces. First, we see that entropy numbers and box dimensions of subsets of Banach spaces are related. We show that the box dimension of the image of a ball under a homogeneous polynomial is finite if and only if it spans a finite-dimensional subspace, but this is not true for holomorphic functions. Furthermore, we relate the entropy numbers of a holomorphic function to those of the polynomials of its Taylor series expansion. As a consequence, if the box dimension of the image of a ball by a holomorphic function f is finite, then the entropy numbers of the polynomials in the Taylor series expansion of f at any point of the ball belong to l(p) for every p>1.