Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2002
The Kadets path distance between Banach spaces X and Y is defined to be the infimum of the lengths with respect to the Kadets distance of all curves joining X and Y. If there is no curve joining X and Y, the Kadets path distance between X and Y is defined to be infty .
Some approaches to estimates of the Kadets path distance from above and from below are developed. In particular, the Kadets path distances between the spaces l_p^n,\ p\in [1,+\rm (inf)ty ], n\in {\b (N)} are estimated.