The separable Jung constant in Banach spaces

Abstract

This paper contains a study of the separable form $J_s(\cdot)$ of the classical Jung constant. We first establish, following Davis \cite{davis}, that a Banach space $X$ is $1$-separably injective if and only if $J_s(X)=1$. This characterization is then used for the understanding of new $1$-separably injective spaces. The last section establishes the inequality $\frac{1}{2}K(Y)J_s(X)\leq e(Y,X)$ connecting the separable Jung constant, Kottman's constant and the extension constant for Lipschitz maps, which is then used to obtain a simple proof of the equality $K(X,c_0)=e(X,c_0)$ of Kalton and a new characterization of $1$-separable injectivity.