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UNKNOWN as of 2026-07-27. The MathOverflow page has zero answers. Checked literature gives the logarithmic bound for classical l_p spaces and a general log-squared-type bound, while no source located in the dated search establishes the stated uniform logarithmic bound for all norms.

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Originating problem: Logarithmic dimension for almost-equilateral sets in Banach spaces

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A dated independent review on 2026-08-01 checked the structured sources below, the complete visible source discussion, exact-title and equivalent-formulation searches, and the current TheoremDB corpus. On 2026-07-27 the Stack Exchange API reported zero answers, no accepted answer, and no closure for question 188161; comments identify the general log-squared bound as the strongest known there. Bartal, Linial, Mendel, and Naor, European Journal of Combinatorics 25 (2004), prove exponential-size almost-equilateral sets for the classical l_p families, uniformly over p, rather than arbitrary Banach spaces. Arias-de-Reyna, Ball, and Villa, Mathematika 45 (1998), give related large almost-equilateral configurations but leave a quantitative gap from the target. A TheoremDB search for almost-equilateral Banach sets, logarithmic dimension, and universal normed-space embeddings found no duplicate.

A complete resolution must satisfy: Prove the existence of C(epsilon) with the displayed universal quantifiers, or construct a fixed epsilon and a sequence of d-dimensional Banach spaces whose largest epsilon-almost-equilateral sets have subexponential size in d. A quantitative result must state all dependencies on epsilon and may rescale a constructed set only by a single common factor.

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Verification source: mathoverflow.net ↗, Dataset references and independent 2026-08-01 status search.

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