On proximinal subspaces of vector-valued Orlicz-Musielak spaces (Q390632)

Let \((\Omega, \Sigma, \mu)\) be a space with positive measure and let \(\Phi: \Omega\times{\mathbb R}_+\mapsto {\mathbb R}_+\) be a \(\varphi\)-function with a parameter, i.e., \(\Phi\) is \(\Sigma\)-measurable with regard to its first variable, it is nondecreasing and continuous with regard to the second variable, \(\Phi(t,0)=0\) and \(\Phi(t,x)>0\) for all \(x>0\), \(t\in\Omega\). Denote by \(M(\Omega, \Sigma, \mu; X)\) the linear space of all strongly measurable functions from \(\Omega\) to a Banach space \(X\), with equality \(\mu\)-almost everywhere, and define \[ \rho_\Phi(f)=\int_\Omega \Phi(t, \|f(t)\| )\, d\mu(t) \] for \(f\in M(\Omega, \Sigma, \mu; X)\). Then \(\rho_\Phi\) is a well-defined modular, generating the Orlicz-Musielak space \[ L^\Phi(\Omega, X)=\{ f\in M(\Omega, \Sigma, \mu; X) : \lim_{\lambda\to 0} \rho_\Phi(\lambda f)=0\}. \] In the paper under review the author discusses the problem: Assume that \(Y\) is a closed linear subspace of \(X\). Does the proximinality of \(Y\) in \(X\) imply the proximinality of \(L^\Phi(\Omega,Y)\) in \(L^\Phi(\Omega,X)\)? The main result of the paper is the following theorem: Let \(Y\) be a weakly \(\mathcal K\)-analytic subspace of a real Banach space \(X\), \(\Omega\) a complete \(\sigma\)-finite measure space. Then \(L^\Phi(\Omega,Y)\) is proximinal in \(L^\Phi(\Omega,X)\) if and only if \(Y\) is proximinal in \(X\). The Chebyshevity of the spaces \(L^\Phi(\Omega,Y)\) and \(L^\Phi(\Omega,X)\) is also discussed.