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 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.

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 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 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.

Let G be a locally compact group with a fixed left Haar measure. Given Young functions φ and ψ, we consider the Orlicz spaces $L^{\phi }\left(G\right)$ and $L^{\psi }\left(G\right)$ on a non-unimodular group G, and, among other things, we prove that under mild conditions on φ and ψ, the set $(f,g)\in L^{\phi }\left(G\right)\times L^{\psi }\left(G\right):f*g$ is well defined on G is σ-c-lower porous in $L^{\phi }\left(G\right)\times L^{\psi }\left(G\right)$. This answers a question raised by Głąb and Strobin in 2010 in a more general setting of Orlicz spaces. We also prove a similar result for non-compact locally compact groups.

Let M₁ and M₂ be N-functions. We establish some combinatorial inequalities and show that the product spaces $\ell {ⁿ}_{M₁}\left(\ell {ⁿ}_{M₂}\right)$ are uniformly isomorphic to subspaces of L₁ if M₁ and M₂ are “separated” by a function $t^r$, 1 < r < 2.

We study imbeddings of the Sobolev space $W^{m,\varrho }\left(\Omega \right)$: = u: Ω → ℝ with $\varrho ({\partial }^{\alpha }u/\partial x^{\alpha })$ < ∞ when |α| ≤ m, in which Ω is a bounded Lipschitz domain in ℝⁿ, ϱ is a rearrangement-invariant (r.i.) norm and 1 ≤ m ≤ n - 1. For such a space we have shown there exist r.i. norms, ${\tau }_{\varrho }$ and ${\sigma }_{\varrho }$, that are optimal with respect to the inclusions $W^{m,\varrho }\left(\Omega \right)\subset W^{m,{\tau }_{\varrho }}\left(\Omega \right)\subset L_{{\sigma }_{\varrho }}\left(\Omega \right)$. General formulas for ${\tau }_{\varrho }$ and ${\sigma }_{\varrho }$ are obtained using the -method of interpolation. These lead to explicit expressions when ϱ is a Lorentz Gamma norm or an Orlicz norm.

Net (X,ℱ,ν) be a σ-finite measure space. Associated with k Lamperti operators on $L^p\left(\nu \right)$, $T₁,...,T_k$, $n̅=(n₁,...,n_k)\in {\mathbb{N}}^k$ and $\alpha ̅=(\alpha ₁,...,{\alpha }_k)$ with $0<{\alpha }_j\le 1$, we define the ergodic Cesàro-α̅ averages ${}_{n̅,\alpha ̅}f=1/\left({\prod }_{j=1}^k{A}_{n_j}^{{\alpha }_j}\right){\sum }_{i_k=0}^{n_k}\cdots {\sum }_{i₁=0}^{n₁}{\prod }_{j=1}^k{A}_{n_j-i_j}^{{\alpha }_j-1}{T}_k^{i_k}\cdots T{₁}^{i₁}f$. For these averages we prove the almost everywhere convergence on X and the convergence in the $L^p\left(\nu \right)$ norm, when $n₁,...,n_k\to \infty$ independently, for all $f\in L^p\left(d\nu \right)$ with p > 1/α⁎ where $\alpha ⁎=mi{n}_{1\le j\le k}{\alpha }_j$. In the limit case p = 1/α⁎, we prove that the averages ${}_{n̅,\alpha ̅}f$ converge almost everywhere on X for all f in the Orlicz-Lorentz space $\Lambda (1/\alpha ⁎,{\phi }_{m-1})$ with $\phi ₘ\left(t\right)=t{(1+log⁺t)}^m$. To obtain the result in the limit case we need...

Let (Ω,μ) be a measure space, E be an arbitrary separable Banach space, $E{*}_{\omega *}$ be the dual equipped with the weak* topology, and g:Ω × E → ℝ be a Carathéodory function which is Lipschitz continuous on each ball of E for almost all s ∈ Ω. Put $G\left(x\right):={\int }_{\Omega }g(s,x\left(s\right))d\mu \left(s\right)$. Consider the integral functional G defined on some non-$L^p$-type Banach space X of measurable functions x: Ω → E. We present several general theorems on sufficient conditions under which any element γ ∈ X* of Clarke’s generalized gradient (multivalued...

Let Φ be a concave function on (0,∞) of strictly critical lower type index $p_{\Phi }\in (0,1]$ and $\omega \in A_{\infty }^{loc}\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ (the class of local weights introduced by V. S. Rychkov). We introduce the weighted local Orlicz-Hardy space $h_{\omega }^{\Phi }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ via the local grand maximal function. Let $\rho \left(t\right)\equiv t^{-1}/{\Phi }^{-1}\left(t^{-1}\right)$ for all t ∈ (0,∞). We also introduce the BMO-type space $bm{o}_{\rho ,\omega }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ and establish the duality between $h_{\omega }^{\Phi }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$ and $bm{o}_{\rho ,\omega }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$. Characterizations of $h_{\omega }^{\Phi }\left(ℝⁿ\right)$, including the atomic characterization, the local vertical and the local nontangential maximal function characterizations, are...

Let $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$ be a domain and let $\alpha <n-1$. We prove the Concentration-Compactness Principle for the embedding of the space $W_0^1{L}^n{log}^{\alpha }L\left(\Omega \right)$ into an Orlicz space corresponding to a Young function which behaves like $exp\left(t^{n/(n-1-\alpha )}\right)$ for large $t$. We also give the result for the embedding into multiple exponential spaces. Our main result is Theorem where we show that if one passes to unbounded domains, then, after the usual modification of the integrand in the Moser functional, the statement of the Concentration-Compactnes Principle...

Let ⟨X,Y⟩ be a duality pair of M-spaces X,Y of measurable functions from Ω ⊂ ℝ ⁿ into ${ℝ}^d$. The paper deals with Y-weak cluster points ϕ̅ of the sequence $\varphi (·,z_j\left(·\right))$ in X, where $z_j:\Omega \to {ℝ}^m$ is measurable for j ∈ ℕ and $\varphi :\Omega \times {ℝ}^m\to {ℝ}^d$ is a Carathéodory function. We obtain general sufficient conditions, under which, for some negligible set $A_{\varphi }$, the integral $I(\varphi ,{\nu }_x):={\int }_{{ℝ}^m}\varphi (x,\lambda )d{\nu }_x\left(\lambda \right)$ exists for $x\in \Omega \setminus A_{\varphi }$ and $\varphi ̅\left(x\right)=I(\varphi ,{\nu }_x)$ on $\Omega \setminus A_{\varphi }$, where $\nu ={{\nu }_x}_{x\in \Omega }$ is a measurable-dependent family of Radon probability measures on ${ℝ}^m$.

Let us consider a Young's function $\mathrm{\Phi }:{ℝ}^{+}\to {ℝ}^{+}$ satisfying the ${\mathrm{\Delta }}_2$ condition together with its complementary function $\mathrm{\Psi }$, and let us consider the Dirichlet problem for a second order elliptic operator in divergence form: $B$ the unit ball of ${ℝ}^n$. In this paper we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the $L^{\varphi }$-solvability of the problem, where $L^{\varphi }$ is the Orlicz Space generated by the function $\mathrm{\Phi }$. This means solvability for $f\in L^{\mathrm{\Phi }}$ in the sense of [5], [8], where the case $\mathrm{\Phi }(t)=t^p$ is treated. ...

We characterize compact composition operators acting on weighted Bergman-Orlicz spaces ${}_{\alpha }^{\psi }=f\in H\left(\right):{\int }_{}\psi \left(\right|f\left(z\right)\left|\right)d{A}_{\alpha }\left(z\right)<\infty$, where α > -1 and ψ is a strictly increasing, subadditive convex function defined on [0,∞) and satisfying ψ(0) = 0, the growth condition $li{m}_{t\to \infty }\psi \left(t\right)/t=\infty$ and the Δ₂-condition. In fact, we prove that $C_{\phi }$ is compact on ${}_{\alpha }^{\psi }$ if and only if it is compact on the weighted Bergman space ${²}_{\alpha }$.

Assume ||·|| is a norm on ℝⁿ and ||·||⁎ its dual. Consider the closed ball $T:=B_{\left|\right|·\left|\right|}(0,r)$, r > 0. Suppose φ is an Orlicz function and ψ its conjugate. We prove that for arbitrary A,B > 0 and for each Lipschitz function f on T, $su{p}_{s,t\in T}|f\left(s\right)-f\left(t\right)|\le 6AB({\int }_0^r\psi (1/A{\epsilon }^{n-1}){\epsilon }^{n-1}d\epsilon +1/\left(n\right|B_{\left|\right|·\left|\right|}(0,1)\left|\right){\int }_T\phi (1/B||\nabla f\left(u\right)\left|\right|⁎\left)du\right)$, where |·| is the Lebesgue measure on ℝⁿ. This is a strengthening of the Sobolev inequality obtained by M. Talagrand. We use this inequality to state, for a given concave, strictly increasing function η: ℝ₊ → ℝ with η(0) = 0, a necessary and sufficient condition on...