Bohr showed that the width of the strip (in the complex plane) on which a given Dirichlet series a n /n s , s ∈ C, converges uniformly but not absolutely, is at most 1/2, and Bohnenblust-Hille that this bound in general is optimal. We prove that for a given infinite dimensional Banach space Y the width of Bohr's strip for a Dirichlet series with coefficients a n in Y is bounded by 1 − 1/ Cot(Y ), where Cot(Y ) denotes the optimal cotype of Y . This estimate even turns out to be optimal, and hence leads to a new characterization of cotype in terms of vector valued Dirichlet series.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)Primary 32A05; Secondary 46B07 · 46B09 · 46G20 The first, second and third authors were supported by MEC and FEDER Project MTM2005-08210.
A. Defant