Characterizing the metric compactification of L_p spaces by random measures

DOI10.1007/S43034-019-00024-1MaRDI QIDQ2175488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Armando W. Gutiérrez

Publication date 29 April 2020

Published in Annals of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02502

zbMATH Keywords

Banach spaceshorofunction compactificationmetric compactificationmetric functionalrandom measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Spaces of measurable functions ((L^p)-spaces, Orlicz spaces, Köthe function spaces, Lorentz spaces, rearrangement invariant spaces, ideal spaces, etc.) (46E30) Extensions of spaces (compactifications, supercompactifications, completions, etc.) (54D35) Random measures (60G57)

Abstract: We present a complete characterization of the metric compactification of $L_p$ spaces for $1leqp<infty$. Each element of the metric compactification of $L_p$ is represented by a random measure on a certain Polish space. By way of illustration, we revisit the $L_p$-mean ergodic theorem for $1<p<infty$, and Alspach's example of an isometry on a weakly compact convex subset of $L_1$ with no fixed points.

Review text

The metric compactification \(\overline{X}^h\) of a metric space \((X,d)\) is defined as the pointwise closure of the family of \(1\)-Lipschitz functions \(\{h_y:y\in X\}\), where \(h_y(\cdot)=d(\cdot,y)-d(x_0,y)\) and \(x_0\in X\) is a fixed arbitrary point. In the case in which \(X\) is proper and geodesic, the injection \(y\mapsto h_y\) is a continuous embedding and \(\overline{X}^h\) coincides with Gromov's horofunction compactification of \(X\). For a general metric space \(X\), the map \(y\mapsto h_y\) is only a continuous injection so \(\overline{X}^h\) is a compactification of \(X\) in a weaker sense. The paper provides a complete characterization of the metric compactification of non-atomic \(L_p\) spaces for \(1\leq p<\infty\), showing that the elements of \(\overline{L_p}^h\) are represented by means of random measures on the compact Polish space \(\overline{\mathbb{R}}^h\). That representation should be compared to the one of \(\overline{\ell_p}^h\) obtained by the author in [Can. Math. Bull. 62, No. 3, 491--507 (2019; Zbl 1435.54009)]. As an application, the paper presents new proofs of the \(L_p\)-mean ergodic theorem for \(1<p<\infty\) and \textit{D. E. Alspach}'s example of an isometry with no fixed points [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 82, 423--424 (1981; Zbl 0468.47036)].

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