A short survey of results on classical Franklin system, Ciesielski systems and general Franklin systems is given. The principal role of the investigations of Z. Ciesielski in the development of these three topics is presented. Recent results on general Franklin systems are discussed in more detail. Some open problems are posed.

We prove some multi-dimensional Clarkson type inequalities for Banach spaces. The exact relations between such inequalities and the concepts of type and cotype are shown, which gives a conclusion in an extended setting to M. Milman's observation on Clarkson's inequalities and type. A similar investigation conceming the close connection between random Clarkson inequality and the corresponding concepts of type and cotype is also included. The obtained results complement, unify and generalize several...

We study orthogonal uniform convexity, a geometric property connected with property (β) of Rolewicz, P-convexity of Kottman, and the fixed point property (see [19, [20]). We consider the coefficient of orthogonal convexity in Köthe spaces and Köthe-Bochner spaces.

We prove the Schatten-Lorentz ideal criteria for commutators of multiplications and projections based on the Calderón reproducing formula and the decomposition theorem for the space of symbols corresponding to commutators in the Schatten ideal.

A classical theorem of Coifman, Rochberg, and Weiss on commutators of singular integrals is extended to the case of generalized Lp spaces with variable exponent.

Let $M_{\beta }$ be the fractional maximal function. The commutator generated by $M_{\beta }$ and a suitable function $b$ is defined by $[M_{\beta },b]f=M_{\beta }\left(bf\right)-b{M}_{\beta }\left(f\right)$. Denote by $𝒫\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ the set of all measurable functions $p(·):{ℝ}^n\to [1,\infty )$ such that $$1<p_{-}:=\underset{x\in {ℝ}^n}{\mathrm{ess}\inf }p\left(x\right)\text{and}{p}_{+}:=\underset{x\in {ℝ}^n}{\mathrm{ess}\sup }p\left(x\right)<\infty ,$$ and by $ℬ\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ the set of all $p(·)\in 𝒫\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ such that the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function $M$ is bounded on $L^{p(·)}\left({ℝ}^n\right)$. In this paper, the authors give some characterizations of $b$ for which $[M_{\beta },b]$ is bounded from $L^{p(·)}\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ into $L^{q(·)}\left({ℝ}^n\right)$, when $p(·)\in 𝒫\left({ℝ}^n\right)$, $0<\beta <n/p_{+}$ and $1/q(·)=1/p(·)-\beta /n$ with $q(·)(n-\beta )/n\in ℬ\left({ℝ}^n\right)$.

We characterize compact embeddings of Besov spaces $B_{p,r}^{0,b}\left({ℝ}^n\right)$ involving the zero classical smoothness and a slowly varying smoothness $b$ into Lorentz-Karamata spaces $L_{p,q;\overline{b}}\left(\Omega \right)$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^n$ and $\overline{b}$ is another slowly varying function.

In this note we present a result on compactness in certain Banach spaces of vector valued functions. We demonstrate an application of this result to the questions of existence of solutions of nonlinear differential inclusions on a Banach space.

We study compactness and related topological properties in the space L¹(m) of a Banach space valued measure m when the natural topologies associated to convergence of vector valued integrals are considered. The resulting topological spaces are shown to be angelic and the relationship of compactness and equi-integrability is explored. A natural norming subset of the dual unit ball of L¹(m) appears in our discussion and we study when it is a boundary. The (almost) complete continuity of the integration...

We consider a generalized Hardy operator $Tf\left(x\right)=\varphi \left(x\right){ʃ}_0^x\psi fv$. For T to be bounded from a weighted Banach function space (X,v) into another, (Y,w), it is always necessary that the Muckenhoupt-type condition $ℬ=su{p}_{R>0}\parallel \varphi {\chi }_{(R,\infty )}{\parallel }_Y\parallel \psi {\chi }_{(0,R)}{\parallel }_{X^{\text{'}}}<\infty$ be satisfied. We say that (X,Y) belongs to the category M(T) if this Muckenhoupt condition is also sufficient. We prove a general criterion for compactness of T from X to Y when (X,Y) ∈ M(T) and give an estimate for the distance of T from the finite rank operators. We apply the results to Lorentz spaces and characterize...

We find necessary and sufficient conditions on a pair of rearrangement-invariant norms, ϱ and σ, in order that the Sobolev space $W^{m,\varrho }\left(\Omega \right)$ be compactly imbedded into the rearrangement-invariant space $L_{\sigma }\left(\Omega \right)$, where Ω is a bounded domain in ℝⁿ with Lipschitz boundary and 1 ≤ m ≤ n-1. In particular, we establish the equivalence of the compactness of the Sobolev imbedding with the compactness of a certain Hardy operator from $L_{\varrho }(0,|\Omega \left|\right)$ into $L_{\sigma }(0,|\Omega \left|\right)$. The results are illustrated with examples in which ϱ and σ are both Orlicz norms...