Grothendieck's inequalities revisited

We review the main results, recently obtained by the authors, on Grothendieck's inequalities for real and complex JB*-triples. We prove some new related facts. Most novelties consist in getting better values for the constants involved in Grothendieck's inequalities. In some case such an improvement needs a completely new proof. We also show that the conjectures established by Barton-Friedman and Chu-Iochum-Loupias are valid (even for real JB*-triples) whenever we allow a small enlargement of the family of prehilbert seminorms (| |_\varphi).
Antonio M. Peralta <aperalta@goliat.ugr.es> Angel Rodríguez Palacios <apalacio@goliat.ugr.es;