Closed subspaces and some basic topological properties of noncommutative Orlicz spaces (Q2401138)

The paper is devoted to topological properties of noncommutative Orlicz spaces \(L_\varphi(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}},\tau)\) in the context of a semifinite von Neumann algebra \(\mathcal{M}\) with a faithful semifinite normal trace \(\tau\). Here, \(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}}\) denotes the algebra of \(\tau\)-measurable operators, and \(\varphi\) is an Orlicz function. The authors prove that, as a modular space, \(L_\varphi(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}},\tau)\) possesses the Fatou property. Further, they characterize the space \(E_\varphi(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}},\tau)\), the norm closure of the space of all bounded \(\tau\)-measurable operators, as \[ E_\varphi(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}},\tau)=\left\{x\in\widetilde{\mathcal{M}}:\tau(\varphi(\lambda|x|)) <\infty\, \text{ for all }\,\lambda>0\right\}. \] It is shown that if \(\varphi\) satisfies the \(\Delta_2\) condition, then \(E_\varphi(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}},\tau)=L_\varphi(\widetilde{\mathcal{M}},\tau)\).