Three observations regarding Schatten p classes

The paper contains three results, the common feature of which is that they deal with the Schatten $p$ class. The first is a presentation of a new complemented subspace of $C_p$ in the reflexive range (and $p≠2$). This construction answers a question of Arazy and Lindestrauss from 1975. The second result relates to tight embeddings of finite dimensional subspaces of $C_p$ in $C_p^n$ with small $n$ and shows that ${\mathrm{\ell }}_p^k$ nicely embeds into $C_p^n$ only if $n$ is at least proportional to $k$ (and then of course the dimension of $C_p^n$ is at least of order $k^2$). The third result concerns single element of $C_p^n$ and shows that for $p>2$ any $n\times n$ matrix of $C_p$ norm one and zero diagonal admits, for every $\epsilon >0$, a $k$-paving of $C_p$ norm at most $\epsilon$ with $k$ depending on $\epsilon$ and $p$ only.