A new lower bound for the Jung constant $JC\left(l^{\left(\Phi \right)}\right)$ of the Orlicz sequence space $l^{\left(\Phi \right)}$ defined by an N-function Φ is found. It is proved that if $l^{\left(\Phi \right)}$ is reflexive and the function tΦ’(t)/Φ(t) is increasing on $(0,{\Phi }^{-1}\left(1\right)]$, then $JC\left(l^{\left(\Phi \right)}\right)\ge \left({\Phi }^{-1}(1/2)\right)/\left({\Phi }^{-1}\left(1\right)\right)$. Examples in Section 3 show that the above estimate is better than in Zhang’s paper (2003) in some cases and that the results given in Yan’s paper (2004) are not accurate.

We prove that the associate space of a generalized Orlicz space $L^{\phi (·)}$ is given by the conjugate modular ${\phi }^{*}$ even without the assumption that simple functions belong to the space. Second, we show that every weakly doubling $\Phi$-function is equivalent to a doubling $\Phi$-function. As a consequence, we conclude that $L^{\phi (·)}$ is uniformly convex if $\phi$ and ${\phi }^{*}$ are weakly doubling.

We use Simonenko quantitative indices of an $𝒩$-function $\Phi$ to estimate two parameters $q_{\Phi }$ and $Q_{\Phi }$ in Orlicz function spaces $L^{\Phi }[0,\infty )$ with Orlicz norm, and get the following inequality: $\frac{B_{\Phi }}{B_{\Phi }-1}\le q_{\Phi }\le Q_{\Phi }\le \frac{A_{\Phi }}{A_{\phi }-1}$, where $A_{\Phi }$ and $B_{\Phi }$ are Simonenko indices. A similar inequality is obtained in $L^{\Phi }[0,1]$ with Orlicz norm.

Our aim in this paper is to establish Trudinger’s inequality on Musielak-Orlicz-Morrey spaces $L^{\Phi ,\kappa }\left(G\right)$ under conditions on $\Phi$ which are essentially weaker than those considered in a former paper. As an application and example, we show Trudinger’s inequality for double phase functionals $\Phi (x,t)=t^{p\left(x\right)}+a\left(x\right)t^{q\left(x\right)}$, where $p(·)$ and $q(·)$ satisfy log-Hölder conditions and $a(·)$ is nonnegative, bounded and Hölder continuous.

We introduce the Musielak-Orlicz space of multifunctions $X_{m,\phi }$ and the set $S_F^{\phi }$ of φ-integrable selections of F. We show that some decomposable sets in Musielak-Orlicz space belong to $X_{m,\phi }$. We generalize Theorem 3.1 from [6]. Also, we get some theorems on the space $X_{m,\phi }$ and the set $S_F^{\phi }$.

We prove the existence of solutions of the unilateral problem for equations of the type Au - divϕ(u) = μ in Orlicz spaces, where A is a Leray-Lions operator defined on $\left(A\right)\subset W₀¹L_M\left(\Omega \right)$, $\mu \in L¹\left(\Omega \right)+W^{-1}{E}_{M̅}\left(\Omega \right)$ and $\varphi \in C⁰(ℝ,{ℝ}^N)$.

We combine the techniques of sequence spaces and general Orlicz functions that are broader than the classical cases of $N$-functions. We give three criteria for the weakly compact sets in general Orlicz sequence spaces. One criterion is related to elements of dual spaces. Under the restriction of ${lim}_{u\to 0}M\left(u\right)/u=0$, we propose two other modular types that are convenient to use because they get rid of elements of dual spaces. Subsequently, by one of these two modular criteria, we see that a set $A$ in Riesz...

We study linear operators from a non-locally convex Orlicz space $L^{\Phi }$ to a Banach space $(X,|\left|·\right|{|}_X)$. Recall that a linear operator $T:L^{\Phi }\to X$ is said to be σ-smooth whenever $uₙ{⟶}^{\left(o\right)}0$ in $L^{\Phi }$ implies ${\left|\right|T\left(uₙ\right)\left|\right|}_X\to 0$. It is shown that every σ-smooth operator $T:L^{\Phi }\to X$ factors through the inclusion map $j:L^{\Phi }\to L^{\Phi ̅}$, where Φ̅ denotes the convex minorant of Φ. We obtain the Bochner integral representation of σ-smooth operators $T:L^{\Phi }\to X$. This extends some earlier results of J. J. Uhl concerning the Bochner integral representation of linear operators defined on...

Let G be a locally compact group, let (φ,ψ) be a complementary pair of Young functions, and let $L^{\phi }\left(G\right)$ and $L^{\psi }\left(G\right)$ be the corresponding Orlicz spaces. Under some conditions on φ, we will show that for a Banach $L^{\phi }\left(G\right)$-submodule X of $L^{\psi }\left(G\right)$, the multiplier space $Ho{m}_{L^{\phi }\left(G\right)}(L^{\phi }\left(G\right),X*)$ is a dual Banach space with predual $L^{\phi }\left(G\right)\bullet X:=\overline{span}ux:u\in L^{\phi }\left(G\right),x\in X$, where the closure is taken in the dual space of $Ho{m}_{L^{\phi }\left(G\right)}(L^{\phi }\left(G\right),X*)$. We also prove that if $\phi$ is a Δ₂-regular N-function, then $C{v}_{\phi }\left(G\right)$, the space of convolutors of $M^{\phi }\left(G\right)$, is identified with the dual of a Banach algebra of functions on G...

We are concerned with the boundedness of generalized fractional integral operators $I_{\rho ,\tau }$ from Orlicz spaces $L^{\Phi }\left(X\right)$ near $L^1\left(X\right)$ to Orlicz spaces $L^{\Psi }\left(X\right)$ over metric measure spaces equipped with lower Ahlfors $Q$-regular measures, where $\Phi$ is a function of the form $\Phi \left(r\right)=r\ell \left(r\right)$ and $\ell$ is of log-type. We give a generalization of paper by Mizuta et al. (2010), in the Euclidean setting. We deal with both generalized Riesz potentials and generalized logarithmic potentials.

We present several continuous embeddings of the critical Besov space $B_p^{n/p,\rho }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$. We first establish a Gagliardo-Nirenberg type estimate ${\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{{Ḃ}_{q,w_r}^{0,\nu }}\le Cₙ{(1/(n-r))}^{1/q+1/\nu -1/\rho }{(q/r)}^{1/\nu -1/\rho }{\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{{Ḃ}_p^{0,\rho }}^{(n-r)p/nq}{\left|\right|u\left|\right|}_{{Ḃ}_p^{n/p,\rho }}^{1-(n-r)p/nq}$, for 1 < p ≤ q < ∞, 1 ≤ ν < ρ ≤ ∞ and the weight function $w_r\left(x\right)=1/{\left(\right|x|}^r)$ with 0 < r < n. Next, we prove the corresponding Trudinger type estimate, and obtain it in terms of the embedding $B_p^{n/p,\rho }\left(ℝⁿ\right)\hookrightarrow B_{\Phi ₀,w_r}^{0,\nu }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$, where the function Φ₀ of the weighted Besov-Orlicz space $B_{\Phi ₀,w_r}^{0,\nu }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ is a Young function of the exponential type. Another point of interest is to embed $B_p^{n/p,\rho }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ into the weighted Besov...

For an Orlicz function φ and a decreasing weight w, two intrinsic exact descriptions are presented for the norm in the Köthe dual of the Orlicz-Lorentz function space ${\Lambda }_{\phi ,w}$ or the sequence space ${\lambda }_{\phi ,w}$, equipped with either the Luxemburg or Amemiya norms. The first description is via the modular $inf\int \phi ⁎(f*/|g\left|\right)\left|g\right|:g\prec w$, where f* is the decreasing rearrangement of f, ≺ denotes submajorization, and φ⁎ is the complementary function to φ. The second description is in terms of the modular ${\int }_I\phi ⁎((f*)⁰/w)w$,where (f*)⁰ is Halperin’s level...

Let $L:=-\Delta +V$ be a Schrödinger operator on ${ℝ}^n$ with $n\ge 3$ and $V\ge 0$ satisfying ${\Delta }^{-1}V\in L^{\infty }\left({ℝ}^n\right)$. Assume that $\varphi :{ℝ}^n\times [0,\infty )\to [0,\infty )$ is a function such that $\varphi (x,·)$ is an Orlicz function, $\varphi (·,t)\in {𝔸}_{\infty }\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ (the class of uniformly Muckenhoupt weights). Let $w$ be an $L$-harmonic function on ${ℝ}^n$ with $0<C_1\le w\le C_2$, where $C_1$ and $C_2$ are positive constants. In this article, the author proves that the mapping $H_{\varphi ,L}\left({ℝ}^n\right)\ni f\mapsto wf\in H_{\varphi }\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ is an isomorphism from the Musielak-Orlicz-Hardy space associated with $L$, $H_{\varphi ,L}\left({ℝ}^n\right)$, to the Musielak-Orlicz-Hardy space $H_{\varphi }\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ under some assumptions on $\varphi$. As applications, the author further...

In this paper, we obtain existence results of periodic solutions of hamiltonian systems in the Orlicz-Sobolev space $W^1{L}^{\Phi }\left([0,T]\right)$. We employ the direct method of calculus of variations and we consider  a potential  function $F$ satisfying the inequality $\left|\nabla F(t,x)\right|\le b_1\left(t\right){\Phi }_0^{\text{'}}\left(\right|x\left|\right)+b_2\left(t\right)$, with $b_1,b_2\in L^1$ and  certain $N$-functions ${\Phi }_0$.

We consider Kirchhoff type problems of the form ⎧ -M(ρ(u))(div(a(|∇u|)∇u) - a(|u|)u) = K(x)f(u) in Ω ⎨ ⎩ ∂u/∂ν = 0 on ∂Ω where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$, N ≥ 3, is a smooth bounded domain, ν is the outward unit normal to ∂Ω, $\rho \left(u\right)={\int }_{\Omega }\left(\Phi \right(\left|\nabla u\right|)+\Phi \left(\right|u\left|\right))dx$, M: [0,∞) → ℝ is a continuous function, $K\in L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$, and f: ℝ → ℝ is a continuous function not satisfying the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz type condition. Using variational methods, we obtain some existence and multiplicity results.

Let 1 ≤ p < 2 and let $L_p=L_p[0,1]$ be the classical $L_p$-space of all (classes of) p-integrable functions on [0,1]. It is known that a sequence of independent copies of a mean zero random variable $f\in L_p$ spans in $L_p$ a subspace isomorphic to some Orlicz sequence space $l_M$. We give precise connections between M and f and establish conditions under which the distribution of a random variable $f\in L_p$ whose independent copies span $l_M$ in $L_p$ is essentially unique.