On the dual of variable Lebesgue spaces with unbounded exponent

arXiv1909.05987MaRDI QIDQ6325211FDOQ6325211

D. Cruz-Uribe, Jose M. Conde-Alonso, Alex Amenta, Jesús Ocáriz

Publication date: 12 September 2019

Abstract: We study the dual space of the variable Lebesgue space $Lp$ with unbounded exponent function $pp$ and provide an answer to a question posed in~[fiorenza-cruzuribe2013]. Our approach is to decompose the dual into a topological direct sum of Banach spaces. The first component corresponds to the dual in the bounded exponent case, and the second is, intuitively, the dual of functions that live where the exponent is unbounded (in a heuristic sense). The second space is extremely complicated, and we illustrate this with a series of examples. In the special case of the variable sequence space $el{l}^{p}p$, we show that this piece can be further decomposed into two spaces, one of which can be characterized in terms of a generalization of finitely additive measures. As part of our work, we also considered the question of dense subsets in $Lp$ for unbounded exponents. We constructed two examples, one for general variable Lebesgue spaces $Lp$ and one in the sequence space $lp$. This gives an answer to another question from~[fiorenza-cruzuribe2013].

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Function spaces arising in harmonic analysis (42B35) Banach sequence spaces (46B45) Spaces of measurable functions ((L^p)-spaces, Orlicz spaces, Köthe function spaces, Lorentz spaces, rearrangement invariant spaces, ideal spaces, etc.) (46E30) Duality theory for topological vector spaces (46A20) Duality and reflexivity in normed linear and Banach spaces (46B10)

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