Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
Banach function spaces
In this chapter, we introduce the idea of a Banach function space; this provides a general setting for most of the spaces of functions that we consider. As an example, we introduce the class of Orlicz spaces, which includes the Lp spaces for 1 < p < ∞. As always, let (Ω, Σ, µ) be a σ-finite measure space, and let M = M(Ω, Σ, µ) be the space of (equivalence classes of) measurable functions on Ω.
A function norm on M is a function ρ : M → [0, ∞] (note that ∞ is allowed) satisfying the following properties:
(i) ρ(f) = 0 if and only if f = 0; ρ(αf) = |α|ρ(f) for α ≠ 0; ρ(f + g) ≤ ρ(f) + ρ(g).
(ii) If |f| ≤ |g| then ρ(f) ≤ ρ(g).
(iii) If 0 ≤ fn ↗ f then ρ(f) = lim n→∞ ρ(fn).
(iv) If A ∈ Σ and µ(A) < ∞ then ρ(IA) < ∞.
(v) If A ∈ Σ and µ(A) < ∞ there exists CA such that ∫ A|f| dµ ≤ CA ρ(f) for any f ∈ M.
If ρ is a function norm, the space E = {f ∈ M: ρ(f) < ∞} is called a Banach function space. If f ∈ E, we write ∥f∥E for ρ(f). Then condition (i) ensures that E is a vector space and that ∥.∥E is a norm on it.
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