Marek Wis\l a
Stable points of unit ball in Orlicz spaces

Comment.Math.Univ.Carolinae 32,3 (1991) 501-515.

Abstract:The aim of this paper is to investigate stability of unit ball in Orlicz spaces, endowed with the Luxemburg norm, from the ``local'' point of view. Firstly, those points of the unit ball are characterized which are stable, i.e., at which the map $z\rightarrow \{(x,y):\frac {1}{2}(x+y)=z\}$ is lower-semicontinuous. Then the main theorem is established: An Orlicz space $L^{\varphi }(\mu )$ has stable unit ball if and only if either $L^{\varphi }(\mu )$ is finite dimensional or it is isometric to $L^{\infty }(\mu )$ or $\varphi $ satisfies the condition $\Delta _r$ or $\Delta _r^0$ (appropriate to the measure $\mu $ and the function $\varphi $) or $c(\varphi )<\infty , \varphi (c(\varphi ))<\infty $ and $\mu (T)<\infty $. Finally, it is proved that the set of all stable points of norm one is dense in the unit sphere $S(L^{\varphi }(\mu ))$.

Keywords: stable point, stable unit ball, extreme point, Orlicz space
AMS Subject Classification: 46E30

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