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 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...

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.

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...

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 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.

Let ϕ: ℝ → ℝ₊ ∪ 0 be an even convex continuous function with ϕ(0) = 0 and ϕ(u) > 0 for all u > 0 and let w be a weight function. u₀ and v₀ are defined by u₀ = supu: ϕ is linear on (0,u), v₀=supv: w is constant on (0,v) (where sup∅ = 0). We prove the following theorem. Theorem. Suppose that ${\Lambda }_{\varphi ,w}(0,\infty )$ (respectively, ${\Lambda }_{\varphi ,w}(0,1)$) is an order continuous Lorentz-Orlicz space. (1) ${\Lambda }_{\varphi ,w}$ has normal structure if and only if u₀ = 0 (respectively, ${\int }^{v₀}\varphi \left(u₀\right)·w<2andu₀<\infty ).$(2) ${\Lambda }_{\varphi ,w}$ has weakly normal structure if and only if ${\int }_0^{v₀}\varphi \left(u₀\right)·w<2$.

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.

We give some equivalent conditions (independent from the Young functions) for inclusions between some classes of $X^{\Phi }$ spaces, where $\Phi$ is a Young function and $X$ is a quasi-Banach function space on a $\sigma$-finite measure space $(\Omega ,𝒜,\mu )$.

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...

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...

In this paper, we define the direct sum ${\left({⨁}_{i=1}^n{X}_i\right)}_{ce{s}_p}$ of Banach spaces X₁,X₂,..., and Xₙ and consider it equipped with the Cesàro p-norm when 1 ≤ p < ∞. We show that ${\left({⨁}_{i=1}^n{X}_i\right)}_{ce{s}_p}$ has the H-property if and only if each $X_i$ has the H-property, and ${\left({⨁}_{i=1}^n{X}_i\right)}_{ce{s}_p}$ has the Schur property if and only if each $X_i$ has the Schur property. Moreover, we also show that ${\left({⨁}_{i=1}^n{X}_i\right)}_{ce{s}_p}$ is rotund if and only if each $X_i$ is rotund.

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 Fⁿ be a connected, smooth and closed n-dimensional manifold satisfying the following property: if $N^m$ is any smooth and closed m-dimensional manifold with m > n and $T:N^m\to N^m$ is a smooth involution whose fixed point set is Fⁿ, then m = 2n. We describe the equivariant cobordism classification of smooth actions $(M^m;\Phi )$ of the group $G=Z{₂}^k$ on closed smooth m-dimensional manifolds $M^m$ for which the fixed point set of the action is a submanifold Fⁿ with the above property. This generalizes a result of F....

This paper is concerned with the isomorphic structure of the Banach space ${\ell }_{\infty }/c₀$ and how it depends on combinatorial tools whose existence is consistent with but not provable from the usual axioms of ZFC. Our main global result is that it is consistent that ${\ell }_{\infty }/c₀$ does not have an orthogonal ${\ell }_{\infty }$-decomposition, that is, it is not of the form ${\ell }_{\infty }\left(X\right)$ for any Banach space X. The main local result is that it is consistent that ${\ell }_{\infty }\left(c₀\left(\right)\right)$ does not embed isomorphically into ${\ell }_{\infty }/c₀$, where is the cardinality of the continuum,...

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 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...

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 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.

For the integral equation (1) below we prove the existence on an interval $J=[0,a]$ of a solution $x$ with values in a Banach space $E$, belonging to the class $L^p(J,E)$, $p>1$. Further, the set of solutions is shown to be a compact one in the sense of Aronszajn.

The distributional $k$-dimensional Jacobian of a map $u$ in the Sobolev space $W^{1,k-1}$ which takes values in the sphere $S^{k-1}$ can be viewed as the boundary of a rectifiable current of codimension $k$ carried by (part of) the singularity of $u$ which is topologically relevant. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the range of the Jacobian operator; in particular, we show that any boundary $M$ of codimension $k$ can be realized as Jacobian of a Sobolev map valued in $S^{k-1}$. In case $M$ is polyhedral, the...

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 $\varphi \in C⁰(ℝ,{ℝ}^N)$.

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 give a classification of all linear natural operators transforming $p$-vectors (i.e., skew-symmetric tensor fields of type $(p,0)$) on $n$-dimensional manifolds $M$ to tensor fields of type $(q,0)$ on $T^{A}M$, where $T^A$ is a Weil bundle, under the condition that $p\ge 1$, $n\ge p$ and $n\ge q$. The main result of the paper states that, roughly speaking, each linear natural operator lifting $p$-vectors to tensor fields of type $(q,0)$ on $T^A$ is a sum of operators obtained by permuting the indices of the tensor products of linear natural...