Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2009
The duality properties of the integration map associated with a vector measure m are used to obtain a representation of the (pre)dual space of the space Lp(m) of p-integrable functions (where 1<p<∞) with respect to the measure m. For this, we provide suitable topologies for the tensor product of the space of q-integrable functions with respect to m (where p and q are conjugate real numbers) and the dual of the Banach space where m takes its values. Our main result asserts that under the assumption of compactness of the unit ball with respect to a particular topology, the space Lp(m) can be written as the dual of a suitable normed space.
The first author acknowledges the support of the Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia under grant FPI-UPV 2006–07. Research partially supported by Generalitat Valenciana (project GVPRE/2008/312), Universidad Politécnica (project PAID-06-09 Ref. 3093) and the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and FEDER, under project MTM2006-11690-C02-01.