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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 May 2003
We present here a new proof of the theorem of
Birman and Solomyak on the metric entropy of the unit ball of a
Besov space $B^s_{\pi,q}$ on a regular domain of ${\mathbb R}^d.$
The
result is: if s - d(1/π - 1/p)+> 0, then the Kolmogorov metric
entropy satisfies H(ε) ~ ε-d/s. This proof
takes advantage of the representation of such spaces on wavelet type
bases and extends the result to more general spaces. The lower bound
is a consequence of very simple probabilistic exponential
inequalities. To prove the upper bound, we provide a new
universal coding based on a thresholding-quantizing procedure using
replication.