We determine the duals of the homogeneous matrix-weighted Besov spaces ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ and ${ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ which were previously defined in [5]. If W is a matrix $A_p$ weight, then the dual of ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ can be identified with ${Ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(W^{-p^{\text{'}}/p}\right)$ and, similarly, $\left[{ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)\right]*\approx {ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(W^{-p^{\text{'}}/p}\right)$. Moreover, for certain W which may not be in the $A_p$ class, the duals of ${Ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ and ${ḃ}_p^{\alpha q}\left(W\right)$ are determined and expressed in terms of the Besov spaces ${Ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(A_Q^{-1}\right)$ and ${ḃ}_{p^{\text{'}}}^{-\alpha q^{\text{'}}}\left(A_Q^{-1}\right)$, which we define in terms of reducing operators ${A_Q}_Q$ associated with W. We also develop the basic theory of these reducing operator Besov spaces. Similar...

We study the duals of the spaces $A^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)$ of harmonic functions in the unit ball of ${ℝ}^n$ with values in a Banach space X, belonging to the Bochner $L^p$ space with weight ${(1-|x\left|\right)}^{\alpha }$, denoted by $L^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)$. For 0 < α < p-1 we construct continuous projections onto $A^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)$ providing a decomposition $L^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)=A^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)+M^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)$. We discuss the conditions on p, α and X for which $A^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)*=A^{q\alpha }(X*)$ and $M^{p\alpha }\left(X\right)*=M^{q\alpha }(X*)$, 1/p+1/q = 1. The last equality is equivalent to the Radon-Nikodým property of X*.

Let $X$ be a completely regular Hausdorff space, $E$ a real normed space, and let $C_b(X,E)$ be the space of all bounded continuous $E$-valued functions on $X$. We develop the general duality theory of the space $C_b(X,E)$ endowed with locally solid topologies; in particular with the strict topologies ${\beta }_z(X,E)$ for $z=\sigma ,\tau ,t$. As an application, we consider criteria for relative weak-star compactness in the spaces of vector measures $M_z(X,E^{\text{'}})$ for $z=\sigma ,\tau ,t$. It is shown that if a subset $H$ of $M_z(X,E^{\text{'}})$ is relatively $\sigma (M_z(X,E^{\text{'}}),C_b(X,E))$-compact, then the set $conv\left(S\right(H\left)\right)$ is still relatively $\sigma (M_z(X,E^{\text{'}}),C_b(X,E))$-compact...

Let (Ω,Σ,μ) be a finite measure space and let X be a real Banach space. Let $L^{\Phi }\left(X\right)$ be the Orlicz-Bochner space defined by a Young function Φ. We study the relationships between Dunford-Pettis operators T from L¹(X) to a Banach space Y and the compactness properties of the operators T restricted to $L^{\Phi }\left(X\right)$. In particular, it is shown that if X is a reflexive Banach space, then a bounded linear operator T:L¹(X) → Y is Dunford-Pettis if and only if T restricted to $L^{\infty }\left(X\right)$ is $(\tau (L^{\infty }\left(X\right),L¹(X*)),|\left|·\right|{|}_Y)$-compact.

In the spirit of the classical Banach-Stone theorem, we prove that if K and S are intervals of ordinals and X is a Banach space having non-trivial cotype, then the existence of an isomorphism T from C(K, X) onto C(S,X) with distortion $\left|\right|T\left|\right|\left|\right|T^{-1}\left|\right|$ strictly less than 3 implies that some finite topological sum of K is homeomorphic to some finite topological sum of S. Moreover, if Xⁿ contains no subspace isomorphic to $X^{n+1}$ for every n ∈ ℕ, then K is homeomorphic to S. In other words, we obtain a vector-valued Banach-Stone...

This paper is concerned with double families of evolution operators employed in the study of dynamical systems in which cause and effect are represented in different Banach spaces. The main tool is the Laplace transform of vector-valued functions. It is used to define the generator of the double family which is a pair of unbounded linear operators and relates to implicit evolution equations in a direct manner. The characterization of generators for a special class of evolutions is presented.

We obtain the equivalence of the properties $\left(\beta \right)$ and (NUC) in Orlicz function spaces. This answers a question raised by Y. Cui, R. Pluciennik and T. Wang.