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It is a special pleasure and honor for the first named author to dedicate this paper to the 60th birthdays of two of his outstanding friends — Israel Gohberg and Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro.
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Milman, V.D., Pajor, A. (1989). Isotropic position and inertia ellipsoids and zonoids of the unit ball of a normed n-dimensional space. In: Lindenstrauss, J., Milman, V.D. (eds) Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1376. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0090049
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