Contractive and optimal sets in Musielak-Orlicz spaces with a smoothness condition (Q2864642)

The author investigates notions of contractive and optimal sets in Musielak-Orlicz spaces. Optimal sets are closely related to the notion of one-complemented subspaces (Lemma 5.3). Of course, the geometry of Banach spaces is also involved in these studies. Section 1 gives the necessary background. Namely, \textit{M. Baronti} and \textit{P. L. Papini} [Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., IV. Ser. 152, 53--61 (1988; Zbl 0673.46010)] proved that a subspace \( Y\subset l_{p}\) (for \(p\in [ 1,\infty )\backslash \left\{ 2\right\} \)) of codimension \(k\) is one-complemented if and only if it is the intersection of \(k\) hyperplanes defined by functionals having at most two non-zero coordinates. Later, \textit{J. E. Jamison} et al. [J. Approximation Theory 130, No.~1, 1--37 (2004; Zbl 1135.46303)] showed a similar result in Musielak-Orlicz sequence spaces generating by an Musielak-Orlicz function \(\Phi \) satisfying some smoothness condition \( \left( S\right)\). Next, in [Numer. Funct. Anal. Optim. 34, No. 9, 1001--1032 (2013; Zbl 1318.46009)], the author considered a similar problem assuming another smoothness condition \(\left( M\right)\). In the present paper, the author studies the notion of contractive and optimal sets replacing, in respective definitions, the norm by the modular. Section 2 contains preliminaries concerning one-complemented subspaces and Musielak-Orlicz spaces. In Section 3, the reader may find notions of smoothness conditions applied later. Section 4 contains an example which refers to results of the author from the previous paper [loc. cit.]. Namely, she shows an example of a function \(\Phi \) not satisfying the condition \(\left( M\right) \) such that the Musielak-Orlicz space \(l_{\Phi }^{\left( n\right) }\) contains a one-complemented subspace defined by a functional having more than two non-zero coordinates. Section 5 deals with optimal sets, contractive sets, existence sets, one-complemented subspaces and relationships between them. In Section 6, the author introduces the notions of optimal and contractive sets in the sense of the modular \(\rho _{\Phi }\) and proves some results concerning these notions. In the last Section 7, the author presents the counterparts of the Kamińska-Lewicki results concerning contractive and optimal sets in modular spaces.