The constants related to isosceles orthogonality in normed spaces and its dual

Abstract

We consider isosceles orthogonality and Birkhoff orthogonality, which are the most used notions of generalized orthogonality. In 2006, Ji and Wu introduced a geometric constant $D(X)$ to give a quantitative characterization of the difference between these two orthogonality types. From their results, we have that $D(X)=D(X^*)$ holds for any symmetric Minkowski plane. On the other hand, for the James constant $J(X)$, Saito, Sato and Tanaka recently showed that if the norm of a two-dimensional space $X$ is absolute and symmetric then $J(X)=J(X^*)$ holds. In this paper, we consider the constant $D(X,\lambda)$ such that $D(X)=\inf_{\lambda \in \mathbb{R}}D(X,\lambda)$ and obtain that in the same situation $D(X,\lambda)=D(X^*,\lambda)$ holds for any $\lambda \in (0,1)$.