Submatrices with the best-bounded inverses: Studying $\mathds{R}^{n \times 2}$ and $\mathds{C}^{n \times 2}$

Abstract: In both real and complex cases, we establish the connection of the problem about $2$-dimensional linear subspaces the most deviating from the coordinate ones with one simply formulated optimization problem for isoperimetric polygons in Euclidean spaces. This study thereby provides a new geometrical point of view on the $2$-dimensional case of the problem formulated by Goreinov, Tyrtyshnikov and Zamarashkin \cite{GTZ1997}, and at the same time presents a new application of the results by Hausmann and Knutson \cite{HK1997}.