\(L_p\) spaces (Q2760169)

This is an expository paper concerning the development of the theory of spaces \(L_p\) and \(\ell_p\), introduced by F. Riesz at the beginning of twentieth century. In Section 1, ``Preliminaries'', the basic inequalities concerning Rademacher series in \(L_p\) are recalled. Section 2, ``Global Structure'', is devoted mainly to the global structure of \(L_p\), in particular to the Haar basis. Section 3, ``Sequences in \(\ell_p\) and \(L_p\)'', discusses properties of unit vector bases of \(\ell_p\), isomorphisms to \(\ell_p\) of a complemented subspace of \(\ell_p\), spreading models and types, Krivine-Maurey theorem, etc. Section 4, ``Subspaces of \(L_p\)'', contains investigations of subspaces \(X\) of \(L_p\), among them the problem of isomorphism between \(X\) and \(\ell_p\) \((2< p<\infty)\) and embedding properties of reflexive subspaces \(X\). Section 5, ``\({\mathcal L}_p\)-spaces'', \(1< p< \infty\), \(p\neq 2\), provides examples and their isomorphic classification, such as Rosenthal's spaces \(X_p\). Finally, \({\mathcal L}_{p,\lambda}\)-spaces are considered. The references section consists of 101 entries.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0970.46001].